11. R1086
£7,500
Description
Chinese Blanc de Chine “Governor Duff” group, modelled as a family in Western clothing, seated either side of a small table with a food dish, in front of a Cross of Lorraine, the family formally arranged, with a pet dog and monkey seated either side of a potted plant, the standing boy and girl holding a fan and ornament while the parents each hold a cup, all on a raised rockwork base.
7 inches, 17.7cm high.
Dehua, Fujian Province.
Kangxi, circa 1700.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in a West of England private collection.
- A similar group is in the British Museum, collection number 1930.7-28.566; another is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, collection number C.c.108-1963; a further example is illustrated by P. J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine, pl. P117a; another is illustrated by Rose Kerr and John Ayers in Blanc de Chine Porcelain from Dehua, A catalogue of the Hickley Collection, Singapore, no. 38; another from the Koger Collection, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida, is illustrated by John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, no. 58, p. 107, where he notes that a similar group was taken on board in Amoy in 1701 by the English East Indiaman Dashwood and sold in London two years later as “Dutch Families”, the group is also published by Geoffrey A. Godden in Oriental Export Market Porcelain and Its Influence on European Wares, no. 192, p. 266, where he notes that it had been included in a Sotheby’s sale record of 1703.