Massive Pair Of Chinese Republican Porcelain Glazed Cranes

Massive Pair Of Chinese Republican Porcelain Glazed CranesA superb, very large and rare opposing pair of porcelain figures modelled as red crowned cranes (Grus japonensis), also called the Japanese crane, Republic of China, 1912 1949. Finely detailed throughout, beautifully painted and glazed in various colours, modelled perched on a stump adorned with lingzhi fungus. Impressed Jin Sheng Cheng Zao seal to bases. In Chinese culture, the crane is venerated as the prince of all feathered creatures and thus has

Height: 33

- Sir Reginald Louis Secondé

and with its curved toprail

The moulded and crossbanded top over the green baize-lined brushing slide

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to whom the firm dedicated its 1759-63 volume The Universal System of Household Furniture

supplied to Mr

clean rectilinear shape

early 19th century Chinese export lacquer panel

in the words of Sheraton in the Cabinet Dictionary

evoking the Greek bronzes of the Hellenistic period

promoted by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director