Items for Sale:    The Chinese Porcelain Company

PAIR OF BOYS ON KYLINS (c. 1685 to c. 1700 China)

Country of Origin

China

Dated

c. 1685 to c. 1700

Medium

porcelain

Dimensions

7.50inch wide   9.50inch high
(19.05 cm wide  24.13 cm high)


Literature

SIMILAR EXAMPLE:
Jakob Goldschmidt Collection, illustrated in Berlin 1929, number 945, page 347; Christie’s London, 29 June 1938, lot 44, page 20.
RELATED EXAMPLES:
Du Boulay 1984, number 9, page 289.
Taft Museum, Cincinnati (1995), number 1931.25, p. 621.

Description / Expertise

Modeled in mirror image, each grouping depicting a smiling boy seated on the back of a kylin, turning towards the viewer with the hands raised, one boy holding a lotus branch and the other with a ruyi scepter, the beast standing foursquare, molded with overlapping scales and pierced on the back with a small hole, also with the head turned towards the viewer and with the mouth open, nostrils flared and eyes bulging, all decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit. The boys dressed in pale green robes embellished with a crane badge and chrysanthemum blooms, the kylins painted green with black-outlined scales and hooves, yellow heads with black dappling, aubergine-tone eyebrows and beard and a bright red mouth.