Pair of Official Figures

Lot 4037 limit € 170

China, fully sculpted depiction of a civil servant and his wife, in clothing typical of the Qing period, wearing a so-called mandarin cloth with bird embroidery on his chest, which indicates the respective rank of the wearer, cuffs of the lower robe in the form of horse hooves, she wears a richly decorated dragon cloak, corresponding to the high rank of her husband, colored paint slightly rubbed, damaged, 1 base with a hairline crack, H approx. 35.5 or 36 cm, late 19th century.