Lot 60
60
A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE MODELS OF BIRDS

Details
A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE MODELS OF BIRDS
CIRCA 1755

With green cresting and green, ochre, blue and grey plumage modelled perched on tree stump bases applied with flowers and mushrooms (one with chip to mushroom and crest and one flower restuck)--8½in. (21.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anon., Sale Sotheby's London, May 24, 1960, Lot 162
Tilley & Co., London, 1960
Literature
Antiques Magazine, February 1965

Lot Essay

Cf. Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, London, 1915, vol. 2, pl. 37, no. 269 for a single example; and the only other known pair of these birds in the collection at Colonial Williamsburg