A rare Chinese famille-rose 'Court Lady' flat-back wall vase, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
清乾隆 粉彩仕女像燭台壁瓶

Modelled as a standing lady dressed in colourful layered robes of gilt-painted coral, puce and bright seafoam-green, holding aloft a vase moulded with bamboo decorations, her hair tied in a high chignon, the white-glazed reverse flat with two apertures

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Dimensions: 31cm high

Formerly in a British private collection

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See an identical figure, this one also with a white-glazed flat back with two apertures, sold at Christie's New York, 26 Jan 2006, lot 41 (offered with additional figure of a boy, hammer price USD $48,000). Christie's catalogue entry notes that the pairing of a Chinese gentleman and lady in these export court figures seems to be exceedingly rare, and mentions that the Ionides collection 'included a related standing figure of a Chinese nobleman with nodding head (published by M. Jourdain and R.S. Jenyns, Chinese Export Art, p. 110), but his female companion, if he had ever had one, was long gone.'

A similar figure but without the flat-back was offered at Sotheby's London, November 9 2023, lot 56.