A large pair of biscuit-glazed toad-shaped vessels


18th century Each toad facing forward with brown webbed feet and slightly upturned heads with large bulbous eyes painted dark chocolate-brown, the white hollowed bodies with pimples and the backs with star-shaped apertures. Each 30cm (11 3/4in) long. (2).
|十八世紀 素胎蟾蜍擺件 一對Provenance: Michel Beurdeley, Paris, 1954A Spanish private collection來源： 1954年為巴黎古董商Michel Beurdeley所有西班牙私人收藏A similar green-glazed toad-shaped vessel, Qianlong, is illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.285.