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A near pair of ‘compagnie-des-indes’ figures of hounds Seated on their haunches with their tails curled around a hind leg looking to the left and right, their heads raised looking inquisitively with the mouth open and the ears drooping at the sides, their hair markings in rich iron-brown, the belly reserved in white, a green-ribboned gilt simulated bell around each neck. Period: Qianlong. Height: 17 cm.
For other models of hounds see, The Peabody Essex Museum, Boston, see W.R.Sargent, The Copeland Collection - Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Massachusetts, 1991, no. 89, and D.S.Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, where several export models of seated dogs are illustrated, including a pair of grey-haired spaniels, p.275, col.pl.352. The dog models include seated pugs, and seated hounds; for a pair of the latter, see A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p.295, col.pl.2. See also M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.172, no.103 for one formerly in the Resche Collection in Paris. The Chinese called this distinctive breed the ’apple-headed dog’.
Packs of hounds for foxhunting or coursing had been trained and kept in England from as early as about 1600, and English hunting hounds were famous as hunting dogs within Europe. As the English East India companies began to trade in the Far East, English hounds became an important commodity for them too. In 1614 Captain Saris wrote recommending a ”...fine greyhound...” as tribute for the Daimyo of Hirado and the same year the Governor of Surat requested from the East India Company ”...looking glasses, figures of beasts or birds made of glass, mastiffs, greyhounds, spaniels and little dogs...”
(See W. Heinemann, Dogs of China and Japan in Nature and Art, London 1921.)
CONDITION REPORT
Nr 1: Firing cracks of which one continues into a crack app. 5 cm. Small chips and loss of glaze, one ear with chip. Nose with crack and repair.
Nr 2: One leg with repair, firing cracks, spots with glaze loss.