A GILT AND POLYCHROME STUCCO FEMALE FIGURE

Description:

China, 17th/18th c.
H. 135 cm
Standing with a slightly twisted body on a base, both hands raised in front of her body originally holding an attribute, wearing various garments, including a long underskirt, wide-sleeved mantle secured with a ribbon knotted to the front, decorated with a partly raised design of flowers and scrolling tendrils, necklace, her face displaying a serene expression with slit eyes, smiling lips, painted facial details, her black coloured hairdo combed in a chignon with long tresses falling down her shoulders and back and secured with a low tiara decorated with a raised design of scrolling tendrils.
Old German private collection, collected in the 1970s and 80s
Partly slighly damaged due to age and rep.