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LOT 1997
Large Chinese Ming Green Glazed Attendant Pair
MING DYNASTY, 1368-1644 A.D. OR LATER
30 - 30 1/2 in. (14.5 kg total, 76-77.5 cm high).
Each modelled in the round, standing with arms held within voluminous sleeves in front of the body, with semi-naturalistic facial features and dressed in floor-length courtly robes, one supporting a small dog and the other a broad dish; heads separately modelled; hollow-formed hexagonal-section green-glazed tiered bases. [6]
Provenance
From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. The V&A Museum, accession number FE.289-2005, for a comparable figure.
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