19TH CENTURY

细节

AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE FIGURE OF A BLACKAMOOR
19th Century
Standing with one hand on his hip, the other holding a green taperstick holder, wearing a green pleated three-tiered skirt, a floral garland over one shoulder, and a hairband on his forehead below his tightly-curled hair, some enamel flakes and frits
12½ in. (31.5 cm.) high

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拍场告示

Please note that the condition of this figure should now read: head and right arm restuck. The estimate should now read: GBP1,000 - 1,500.

拍品专文

The inspiration for these figures would most likely have been the dark-skinned foreigners, called 'black' by the Chinese whether African, Indian or Persian, and who were known to have been in China as early as the 7th Century A.D. By the 17th Century Africans were rarely seen in the Qing capital at Beijing, although a large community could be found in Macao where they worked as stevedores on Portuguese carracks and as servants in Jesuit missions, charity hospitals and private households.
A similar figure, but dating to the Kangxi period, was in the S. E. Kennedy Collection, illustrated by Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hardstones, London, 1911, vol.I, pl.74, and later sold in these Rooms, 21 June 1916, lot 80; it was again illustrated by G. Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste, London, vol.II, p.328. Compare the similar figures flanking a clock, exhibited Chinesische Kunst, Berlin, 1929, catalogue no.1012; and the two blackamoor figures from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, sold in our New York Rooms, 23 March 1995, lot 367.