A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOW MODELS OF TAWNY OWLS

THE PORCELAIN, CIRCA 1755-60

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOW MODELS OF TAWNY OWLS
THE PORCELAIN, CIRCA 1755-60
Each finely modelled with brown beak and striped claws, their plumage enriched in light chestnut-brown and soft puce and with yellow and puce patches around their black-brownish eyes, perched on a tree-stump applied with flowers and leaves and painted with flower sprays, on later ormolu rocaille scroll bases in the Louis XV style
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly the pair (unmounted) sold Sotheby's & Co., London, 28 October 1952, lot 120.

Sale room notice

For a very similar single model with brown and yellow plumage colouring from the The Harewood Charitable Trust, see Christie's London, 2 June 1986, lot 314.

Lot Essay

See Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures, pl. 105 and Yvonne Hackenbroch, The Irwin Untermyer Collection, London 1956, pl. 78, fig. 259, formerly in the Francis L. Dixon Collection, England, for other examples.
For a very similar single model with brown and yellow plumage colouring from the The Harewood Charitable Trust see Christie's London, 2 June 1986, lot 314.

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