A ‘FAMILLE VERTE’ FIGURE OF A DIGNITARY

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A ‘FAMILLE VERTE’ FIGURE OF A DIGNITARY
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, late 17th-early 18th century
17 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 4165.

Small sculptures similar to this were exported to Europe from already the late seventeenth century.
The inventory of Burghley House compiled in 1688 registers “figures sitting in Chaires” (G. Lang, The Wrestling Boys. An exhibition of Chinese and Japanese ceramics from the 16^th to the 18^th century in the collection at Burghley House, exhibition catalogue, Stamford 1983, p. 90, n. 235: the author associate this description to ‘blanc de Chine’ small sculptures, but it is not impossible that it could referred to polychrome pieces such as this one in the Duca di Martina Museum).