Price
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A Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Models of Cockerels, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period.
China.
1736 to 1795.
Each modelled standing on pierced rocky bases, their plumage richly coloured in famille-rose enamels, their combs cold painted in red.
Provenance
The J.E. Sowell Collection.
Exhibitions
Other similar pairs may be found in the Gubbay Collection, Clandon Park, Surrey. Also in The Copeland Collection, Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1991, p.144. pl.66.
Literature
Mandarin and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Vol. I. Cohen & Cohen, Reigate, 2008, page. 228. Cat. No. 16.4.
The figure may represent the red jungle fowl (Gallus Gallus) of southern China, which in appearance is much like a domestic gamecock and nearly as colourful as the enamelled porcelain representation’. De Schaunensee 1984, The Birds of China, Washington D.C., 1984.
Stock Code 1542.
Dimensions 30.50cm high.
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