THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A BOW MODEL OF A TAWNY OWL, its plumage in shades of yellow and brown, perched on a tree-stump applied with coloured flowers and foliage and enriched in green (beak a restored replacement, chips to flowers and restored chip and chips to base, extended firing-crack to left side with associated glaze chips), circa 1758

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A BOW MODEL OF A TAWNY OWL, its plumage in shades of yellow and brown, perched on a tree-stump applied with coloured flowers and foliage and enriched in green (beak a restored replacement, chips to flowers and restored chip and chips to base, extended firing-crack to left side with associated glaze chips), circa 1758
19.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Yvonne Hackenbrock, op. cit., col. pl. 78, fig. 259; Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Figures, pl. 105 and the example sold in these Rooms on 2 June 1986, lot 314. Similar white examples were sold in these Rooms on 14 October 1985, lot 237 and 11 February 1991, lot 35

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