TWO FAMILLE VERTE FIGURES OF BOYS RIDING A QILIN Kangxi One amusingly modelled as a yellow-robed rider wearing a curling Mongolian-style hat astride a pale-green-glazed standing Buddhistic lion, 15cm (5 1/2in) high; and the other as a green-robed boy holding a pipa sitting side saddle on a yellow-bodied qilin, 14cm (4 1/2in) high. (2). Footnotes: 清康熙 胡人騎獅及童子騎獅瓷擺件 兩件 Provenance: Ionides collection, England (the boy) (according to the collector's documents) Ralph M. Chait Galleries (the boy) Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 22 March 2004 (the foreigner) A European private collection Compare with a related pair of famille verte figures seated atop a qilin, Kangxi, sold at Christie's New York, 22 October 2022, lot 417. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing