Lot 8
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A creamware model of a parrot of Wheildon type
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A creamware model of a parrot of Wheildon type

CIRCA 1770, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE

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A creamware model of a parrot of Wheildon type
Circa 1770, probably Staffordshire
After a Chinese original, modelled perched on a conical stump, wearing an amused expression and looking slightly to one side, with finely incised wing and tail feathers and streaked in a brown tortoishell-type glaze (minor hairline cracks around base)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. the closely similar saltglaze model of a parrot from the Rous Lench Collection, sale in these Rooms, 29th and 30th May 1990, lot 175. For other models of parrots in the Burnap Collection, Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art, Kansas, Missouri, see the catalogue (Kansas, 1953) no. 308.

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