Figure 223

One of a pair of cloisonné enamel figures combining both cast sections (hands) and hammered sections (body and head) using mechanical methods for joining, namely bent tabs between head and body and rivets for the hands. Note that the enamel overlays are only on the hammered sections. Seated Figure, China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–95), H. 88.3 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of A. W. Bahr in memory of his wife, Helen Marion Bahr, 1954, inv. 54.124.2a–b.).