CHINA - Lot 362

CHINA Porcelain group depicting a boy carrying another boy on his piggyback, with polychrome decoration in green family enamels of flowers. Kangxi period (1661-1722), circa 1700. H. 24 cm. Restorations to the hands. Exhibition : Oriental ceramic society 1947 exhibition n° 119. Provenance : Label Chait Galleries New YorkThe Chinese porcelain Company.The Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides (1883-1962). The Hodroff Collection Chinese Export Porcelain From The Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff, part III, Christie's, New York, January 21, 2009, n° 153. Bibliography: For a group of similar figures, see The Copeland Collection (The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1991, p. 103), where author W.R. Sargent notes that "the Taoist star-god of happiness, Fu Xing... is frequently depicted in the costume of a mandarin carrying a boy on his back". Frank Partridge & Sons, catalog, June-July 1933, no. 53 for a comparable model, see also two comparable models in Christie's sale, June 29, 1938, lots 38 and 39 Fine Chinese Porcelain from the Jacob Goldschmidt Collection.