CHINA - Lot 408

CHINA Pair of porcelain greyhounds with iron-red decoration, the yellow-bottomed bell held by a green-bottomed collar. 18th century, Qianlong period (1735-1796). H. 16 cm. Restored chips on the ears. Bibliography: Chinese Export Porcelain, A Loan Exhibition from New Jersey Collections at the NewarkMuseum,p. 44, fig. 196-200; J.G. Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, plate 73; E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, plate XIV; D.S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, 1997 London, p.137, no. 175 for a similar pair of larger size, The Choice of the Private Trader, D.S. Howard, Minneapolis 1994, p. 273; Oriental Lowestoft, J.A. Lloyd Hyde, plate XII, fig. 29; Chinese Porcelain, A. du Boulay, Hong Kong 1963, p. 74, no. 102, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, A. du Boulay, p. 295 for a similar pair; Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, London 1987, p. 84, no. 119; A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics, C. and M. Beurdeley, London 1984, p. 257, no. 139; Porcelain de la Compagnie des Indes, M. Beurdeley, 1962, p. 151; Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, C.J.A. Jörg, London, 1997, p. 198, no. 223; Oriental Lowestoft (Chinese Export Porcelain), H.W. Gordon and E. Gordon, 1963, p. 21 and p. 28; Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, no. 332; Chinese Export Porcelain from the Museum of Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon, M.A.P. de Matos, Lisbon 1996, p. 262, no. 155 and p. 263, no. 156; The Chinese Pavillon at Drottningholm, 1972 Malmö, p. 129; Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, J. Ayers, 2016 London, vol. 1, p. 320.