A RARE CHINESE BISCUIT PORCELAIN TURQUOISE GLAZED WATER-DROP...

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£100 - £200

A RARE CHINESE BISCUIT PORCELAIN TURQUOISE GLAZED WATER-DROPPER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) 
清康熙 松石绿釉猴型水滴
in the form of a seated monkey holding a gourd, his body carved with hairwork and sitting on a rockwork base, with fitted wood stand with a copy of the Marchant exhibition catalogue
7cm high

PROVENANCE: From an important French private collection formed between 1924 and 1941.  Purchased from Pierre Saqué, 12 Avenue George V, Paris, 3rd April 1929.

EXHIBITION: Included by Marchant in their 2023 exhibition of Kangxi Biscuit and Pottery: A Private French Collection, no. 13, pp. 30/1.

NOTE: A similar pair from Wannieck, Paris was sold by Sotheby’s Monaco in their auction of Importante Collection de la Compagnie des Indes et Porcelaine de Chine, 9th February 1981, lot 922, p. 16; another was sold by Sotheby’s Monaco in their auction of Belle Collection de Porcelaines de Chine et Objets d’Art Chinois, 23rd June 1985, lot 501.


Marchant: ‘Moving to Brook Street’
To be offered without reserve

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Excellent condition.