A group of turquoise-glazed figures


KangxiComprising: a matched pair of boy-form brush washers, one with aubergine splashes; a small model of Liu Hai; and a figure of a recumbent boy.The largest: 10.3cm (4 1/8in) wide (4).
|Provenance:Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (1876-1929), and thence by descentLe Palais Abbatial de Royaumont (inventory label nos. 328, 329 and 330). Baron Eugène Charles Joachim Fould-Springer (1876–1929), of French-Jewish ancestry, descended from one of the most distinguished financial and industrial French families of the 19th century. He married Marie-Cécile von Springer (1886-1978), who hailed from a well-known family of Austrian industrialists. Born Eugène C.J. Fould, in 1908 he was ennobled by Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria as Baron Fould-Springer, and changed his name by decree in 1912. He and his wife divided their time between their Parisian residence on Avenue d'Iéna and Le Palais Abbatial de Royaumont. He died in Shanghai in 1929.