Asian Art II - 2nd July 2020
Lot 767
TWO CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE MODELS OF HORSES AND THREE WHISTLES KANGXI 1662-1722 The horses...
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TWO CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE MODELS OF HORSES AND THREE WHISTLES
KANGXI 1662-1722
The horses depicted standing on rectangular bases, one with a paper label for Pierre Saqué, the largest whistle formed as a standing European gentleman holding a bird at his chest, another modelled as a foreigner seated on a dragon, the third in the form of a European riding a crouching tiger, 9.5cm. (5)
Provenance: the horses formerly in an important French private collection, purchased from Pierre Saqué, Paris. The smallest whistle formerly in the collection of Jacques and Galila Hollander, Belgium.
Cf. The Victoria & Albert Museum, museum no.3357-1853 for a similar blanc de Chine horse.