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LOT 2182
Chinese Qing Pair of Female Attendants
QING DYNASTY, 1644-1912 A.D.
8 5/8 - 9 in. (966 grams total, 22-23 cm).
Modelled standing and dressed in dark robes, hair worn on a tall to-knot held in place with a band, one holding a box in her hand, and the other a plate with a pig head in her left hand a bag over her right shoulder. [2]
Provenance
From a West Country collection, UK, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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