A PAIR OF JACOB PETIT PORCELAIN FIGURAL FLASKS OF A SEATED SULTAN AND SULTANA
Attributed to Jacob Petit, Paris, France, mid-19th century

A PAIR OF JACOB PETIT PORCELAIN FIGURAL FLASKS OF A SEATED SULTAN AND SULTANA
Attributed to Jacob Petit, Paris, France, mid-19th century

Modelled as a seated Ottoman Sultan and Sultana on octagonal cushions, both wearing colourful gilt-embroidered flowered robes, the top of their polychrome-painted voluminous turbans with a hole, both figures without the original stoppers, the Sultan seated next to a huqqa (water pipe) and holding the mouth piece in his right hand, the Sultana holding a flower on her right hand, a grey dove perched on her left hand, both bases stamped with the maker's mark in cobalt blue J.P., each approx. 22.5cm high.

For a very similar pair previously sold at auction, please see Christie's Amsterdam, 9 November 2004, lot 222; Sotheby's London, 10 June 2020, lot 235; and these Rooms, 2 December 2020, lot 950.

Dimensions: each approx. 22.5cm high