KANGXI 1662-1722Powerfully modelled with their heads turned sideways and looking down, the female with her puppy climbing up her front paw, the male with an articulated brocade ball, each raised on a high rectangular plinth and decorated with green, yellow and aubergine enamels on a biscuit porcelain ground, 33cm. (2)Cf. M Pinto de Matos, Chinese Porcelain in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, pp.146-147, no.37 for a closely related pair.