SEALS - Lot 271

Lot 271
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SEALS - Lot 271
SEALS Pair of large figures in soft porcelain representing an oriental standing, wearing a turban, holding a parrot in the left hand and an oriental woman standing, pregnant or ventripotent of a crown, their tunic with polychrome decoration of flowers. Manufacture of Jacques Chapelle. 18th century. H. 35 cm. Firing cracks, old restorations, some missing parts. This pair of oriental figures is among the most extravagant statuettes in French porcelain. The style of the flowers, thrown in semis, isolated, in iron red, purple or yellow, the brown-ochre palette of the bases, present on the two following groups, the creamy paste of a white-ivory and the form the characters of the statuary in soft porcelain of Sceaux still badly known and often known and often misattributed. Among these and decorated with similar flowers are the seated Chinese from the former Pflueger collection, now in the Boston Museum of Art, reproduced by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain and Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, 1993, vol. 2, 1993, pp. 74-75, a grotesque female figure in the Hartford Museum (Clare Le Corbeiller and Linda Roth, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000, No. 43, pp. 72-73), three Chinese figures in the Linsky Collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (Clare Le Corbeiller¸The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art¸1984, no. 302-304, pp. 324-325), a female figure from the former Irwin Untermeyer collection (Sotheby's, London, June 13, 1995, lot 221).
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