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A PAIR OF DEHUA FIGURES OF FOREIGN TRIBUTE BEARERS RIDING ELEPHANTS, QING DYNASTY
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04月17日 下午5点 开拍 /15天2小时
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China, Fujian Province, 18th to early 19th century. Each finely potted and covered overall in a glaze of cool white tone, depicting a foreigner seated side-saddled in a dynamic pose atop a naturalistically modeled elephant standing foursquare. The men are dressed in loose robes opening at the chest to reveal their emaciated ribcages, one with his mouth agape and clutching a coral branch and the other with the mouth closed and holding a horn. Both with rather fierce expressions and exaggerated features reminiscent of ancient tomb guardians or demons, their heads surmounted by distinctive caps flanked by upward-flowing tufts of hair. Provenance: Collet's Chinese Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 1971. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, London, United Kingdom, acquired from the above. Copies of the invoice from Collet's Chinese Gallery, dated 15 April 1971, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, stating a purchase price for the present lot of GBP 210 or approx. EUR 3,500 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing), and a typewritten letter from the gallery's manager Mary Shen in which she cordially sets out the terms of payment for the acquired pieces and extends an invitation for a further visit to the gallery, accompany this lot. Collet's Chinese Gallery was a specialized branch devoted to Chinese antiquities and books, established during the 1960s near the British Museum by the renowned Collet's bookshop, founded in 1934 by Eva Colle Reckitt (1890-1976) to import communist and radical publications into the United Kingdom. The premises at 66 Charing Cross Road had previously operated as a radical bookshop under the name Henderson's, popularly known as 'the bomb shop'. In 1936, Collet's acquired the stock of the London-Soviet trading agency Arcos, and following the Second World War the firm expanded internationally, opening branches in Manchester, Glasgow, Moscow, Prague, and New York City.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and firing irregularities, including occasional dark spots and minuscule burst bubbles. Old repairs to one of the small protrusions on the headdress of one foreigner and the tip of the knot fastening the shirt of the other. A minute loss to the coral branch held in the hand of the latter.Weight: 1,946 g (excl. stand), 2,298 g (incl. stand) [total]Dimensions: Height 22.9 (excl. stand), 26.4 (incl. stand) [each]Each with a matching hardwood stand dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century. (4)The present subject can be identified as foreign tribute bearers by the figures' grotesque expressions and more decisively by the precious objects held in their hands and the exotic elephants they ride on. The imagery of foreigners paying tribute to the imperial Qing court is an auspicious theme found mostly on 18th-century porcelain and works of art. Tribute scenes also found popularity in court paintings, such as the anonymous hanging scroll, 'Envoys from Vassal States and Foreign Countries Presenting Tribute to the Emperor', in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Paintings by Court Artists of the Qing Court, The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 240-241, no. 64.This celebrated genre was codified in the lost masterpiece Tribute Bearers by Yan Liben (ca. 600-673), preserved today only through a Song dynasty copy in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. There, envoys from distant lands appear with sharply differentiated features—high-bridged noses, deep-set eyes, and curling beards—carrying treasures such as coral branches, tusks, vessels of precious metal, and rare animals. More than a record of a diplomatic procession, such imagery proclaimed the Empire's grandeur and its role as the axis of the known world.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related Dehua model of a kneeling mahout on an elephant, dated to the 18th century, 22 cm high, in the British Museum, registration number 1980,0728.59.

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