CIRCA 1755

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PHEASANTS
CIRCA 1755
Each with shaded iron-red breast and plumage meticulously rendered in pink, yellow, green, blue, black, white and gilt, the eyes black and the beak yellow, perched on blue pierced rockwork base
15 ¾ in. (39.5 cm)

Literature

op. cit., p. 236-237, no. 16.11

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Lot Essay

The large heads of this pair are distinctive and enable accurate dating, as example of the same form were found on the wreck of the Geldermalsen, a Dutch ship travelling back from Canton that sank in 1752.
A related example has been sold in the Henry Brown Collection, Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1941, lot 71.

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