A Chelsea model of a 'Little Black and White Duck'

CIRCA 1751

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A Chelsea model of a 'Little Black and White Duck'
Circa 1751
Modelled with its neck curled round and its bill beneath its right wing, the head feathers in shades of blue, purple, green and white, the neck with bands of blue and purple and the body feathers in shades of white and dark and pale-brown, the tail feathers in pink and black, perched astride a spreading tree-trunk painted predominantly in iron-red and yellow with five flower-sprays (restoration to tip of right wing), raised red anchor mark
4½in. (11.5cm.) high

Provenance

Brigadier James L. Hill, sale Sotheby's, 25 March 1974, lot 201.

Exhibited

Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69 (November 1984 - February 1985), no. 5.

Lot Essay

After the engraving from George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II, pl. 100 (here illustrated).

Cf. Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl. 11, fig. 19.

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