Pair of Recumbent Spaniels
Porcelain
Chinese export, probably for the
English market, ca. 1760
Purchase in honor of a friend and loyal benefactor
of the Museum, 1995.46-.47
Chinese porcelains made to appeal to specific foreign
tastes from the seventeeth to nineteenth centuries are
known as Chinese export porcelains. These two spaniels
were intended as mantelpiece decorations.
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