6th Nov, 2025 10:00

Chinese Art 中國藝術 - Including the Santos Collection
 
  Lot 37
 

A Chinese blanc-de-chine 'piggyback' figure group, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, circa 1760
清乾隆 約1760年 德化白釉背馱像

Modelled as a woman being hoisted up onto a man's back as she clutches a fly whisk in her right hand, both dressed in long flowing robes atop a rocky outcrop, covered overall in a white glaze

(Quantity:1)

Dimensions: 21.5cm high

Provenance:

Santos Collection

來源:

桑托斯收藏

Notes:

See an enamelled figure group from the Hodroff Collection sold at Christie's New York, 21 Jan 2009, lot 258 [link]; see a very similar white-glazed figure sold at Christie's Amsterdan, 10 May 2000, lot 154 [link].

For further literature, please refer to:S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, plate CIII for a similar group decorated in opaque enamels; J.P. van Goidsenhoven, La Ceramique Chinoise sous les Ts’ing, Brussels 1936, plate 92, cat. 212 for a similar group decorated in opaque enamels but with different base; J. Wirgin, Från Kina till Europa, 1998 Stockholm, p. 201, cat. 218 for a similar figure in opaque enamels.

參見一件琺瑯彩人物群像,原屬 Hodroff 收藏,曾於紐約佳士得二〇〇九年一月二十一日拍賣,編號二五八;另參見一件極為相似之白釉人物像,曾於阿姆斯特丹佳士得二〇〇〇年五月十日拍賣,編號一五四。

參考文獻:

S. Jenyns,《中國晚期瓷器》,圖版 CIII,載一件相類之不透明琺瑯彩人物群像;
J.P. van Goidsenhoven,《清代中國陶瓷》,布魯塞爾,一九三六年,圖版九十二,編號二一二,載一件相類之不透明琺瑯彩人物群像,然底座不同;

J. Wirgin,《從中國到歐洲》,斯德哥爾摩,一九九八年,第二〇一頁,編號二一八,載一件相類之不透明琺瑯彩人物像。

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