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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Apr 28, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Exceptional Sale | 4 | $****** - ****** | AN IMPERIAL CHINESE ORMOLU, PASTE-SET PAINTED ENAMEL AND ALABASTER AUTOMATON 'FISHING BOY AND HIS CATCH' WITH CLOCKWORK MECHANISMS |
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Christie's South Kensington, 4 September 1986, lot 216.
Pelham Galleries, London.
London, The Grosvenor House Antique Fair, London, 15-24 June 1989.
Pelham Galleries. London, 1989, p. 27.
The Grosvenor House Antique Fair Handbook, London, 15-24 June 1989, p. 166.
AUTOMATON: the figure has an alabaster head carved and painted with a sweet expression, with bright eyes and a broad smile below hair worn in two topknots tied with red ribbons, and supported on a carved wood body dressed in a short orange silk jacket with gold braid on the sleeves and fastened at the neck and side with a small gilt-bronze button, over a pair of beige silk pants, and an embroidered shoe, the figure balanced on one knee while holding a bamboo fishing pole in his right hand and a catch basket in his left, the bamboo pole suspending a fish carved in mother of pearl and another in pearl, the figure activated by turning a flat circular key at the back which winds the clockwork mechanism and a gilt-bronze knob activates the movement with a counter-clockwise turn, the boy raises and lowers his proper right arm in a gesture of casting his bamboo fishing pole in the gurgling stream below, upon which fish are caught and deftly placed in the basket
CASE: the tall rectangular Canton enamel base decorated in a pale famille-rose palette and inset with jewel-like transparent paste gems, finely painted to simulate the rocky banks of a river, the small paste gems suggesting the dappled light reflecting from the rushing water, all above an ornate ormolu base with archaistic scroll balustrade, raised on bracket feet, the shaped aprons finely cast with floral scroll
MOVEMENT: English, late 18th century, housed in the base section and accessed by a large removable panel at the back
