CHINA - Lot 421

CHINA Pair of porcelain spaniel figures decorated in iron red, the gold-ground bell held by a green and black collar. 18th century, Qianlong period (1735-1796). H. 16 cm. Bibliography Comparable models reproduced in Chinese Porcelain, A. du Boulay, Hong Kong 1963, p. 74, no. 102; Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, A. du Boulay, p. 295 and p. 297; Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, London 1987, p. 84, no. 119 of a single hound on a base decorated in translucent enamels; A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics, C. and M. Beurdeley, London 1984, p. 257, no. 139 and p. 273, no. 150; Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, M. Beurdeley, Fribourg 1974, p. 114, fig. 81 and p. 199, no. 196; The Copeland Collection, Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, W.R. Sargent, Salem, MA 1991, pp. 189/190/191, no. 92; Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p. 198, no. 223; A Tale of Three Cities, D.S. Howard, no. 177, p. 139; Chinese Export Porcelains from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Harold L. Tonkin, O.A.C., London 1997, p. 198, no. 139. Harold L. Tonkin, O.K. Preisner, Pennsylvania State University 1980, p. 27, no. 48; 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.