A BOW MODEL OF A SOUTH AMERICAN PARROT

CIRCA 1758

Details

A BOW MODEL OF A SOUTH AMERICAN PARROT
Circa 1758
The bird with bright green plummage enriched in reddish brown and white, perched on a tree stump with three branches applied with flowers, its raised right claw clutching a puce berry
4 1/8in. (10.4cm.) high

Provenance

With James A Lewis & Son, Inc., New York

Exhibited

London, Armin B. Allen, The Henry C. and Martha L. Isaacson Collection: English, French and Italian Porcelain, June 1989, no. 22

Lot Essay

See Frank Hurlbutt, Bow Porcelain, London, 1926, pl. 29 for an example of the same bird on a taller stump; also Donald C. Peirce, English Ceramics - The Frances and Emory Coke Collection, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, 1988, p. 109, no. 103 for an example raised on scroll feet.

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