Each curly haired Westerner modeled standing, the male courtier wearing a sash and with a tricorn hat in one hand, the lady wearing a dress decorated with flowers
9⁵⁄₈ in. (24.4 cm.) high, the male figure

With The Chinese Porcelain Co., New York (the female figure).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 7 December 1998, lot 327 (the male figure).

W.R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde Collection, Mexico, 2014, cat. no. 54, p. 179.

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This rare couple is also found in several museum collections, including the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (accession no. C.109A-1963). The elaborate fashions the couple wears are thought to be after late 17th century engravings by the Bonnart brothers, and the figures are sometimes refered to as Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon. See W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Salem, 1991, pp. 104-105.

The Tibor Collection was formed over decades, growing to encompass every category of Chinese export porcelain, from small, charming teawares to massive pairs of important jars. The collector had a deep appreciation for the magnificent porcelains made for New Spain as well as for the lifelike charm and elegance of Chinese porcelain figure and animal models.