CHINA - Lot 108

CHINA Pair of porcelain recumbent spaniels with iron-red coats. 18th century, Qianlong period (1735-1796). Restorations to the legs and one tail. Bibliography : Chinese Export Porcelain, A Loan Exhibition from New Jersey Collections at the Newark Museum, p. 44, fig. 196/200 China Trade Porcelain, J.G. Phillips, Cambridge, MA, USA 1956, plate 73 Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, E. Gordon, plate XIV;A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, D.S. Howard, 1997 London, p. 137, no. 175;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; Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, London 1987, p. 295. 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, Freiburg 1974, p. 151 Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p. 198, no. 223; 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 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. This lot is subject to temporary importation. The buyer must pay import charges of 5.5% (6.6% incl. VAT) of the hammer price, in addition to the usual fees. These additional costs may be refunded to the buyer on presentation of customs documents for export outside the European Union.