拍品的狀況可能存在極大差異，而由於其性質使然，拍品難以處於完美無瑕的狀態。拍品均以拍賣時的狀況出售。

Overall good condition; each with some rubbing, and losses to the gilding and enamels; the stoppers later associated and overpainted, possibly made of plaster; the Sultan with a crack across the base mostly obscured by old overpaint, now flaking and a later wooden hookah (the top spindle reattached) and repairs and overpaint to his foot; the Sultana's head likely broken off and reattached with associated overpaint, her hand also restored and overpainted, a few scattered small chips including to the hem of her robes and the beak of the bird.