TWO BOW MODELS OF ROOSTERS

CIRCA 1760

Details

TWO BOW MODELS OF ROOSTERS
Circa 1760
Each with plumage picked out in brown and enriched in shades of brown, yellow purple and iron-red, on mound base moulded with rocaille scrolls enriched in dark puce and applied with flowers and leaves
4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Mrs. Harrison Williams, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 22 May 1952, lot 55 (the pair)
With Philip Suval, New York, 1952

Lot Essay

See Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain, The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman, London, 1982, p. 156, fig. 266 for examples of the present models and the rooster found in the following lot as a pair on variant bases.

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