Seven pearlware quail-boxes and covers and a circular stand
Seven pearlware quail-boxes and covers and a circular stand

CIRCA 1815, PROBABLY DAVENPORT

细节
Seven pearlware quail-boxes and covers and a circular stand
Circa 1815, probably Davenport
The boxes naturally modelled with brown and grey plumage, the circular stand forming a nest painted to simulate twigs and grasses, the overturned rim enriched in green, ochre and brown (one cover a later replacement, another cover broken and with small piece missing, another with extended firing-crack)
the boxes 4in. (10 cm.) wide, the stand 11in. (29 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Cf. Terence A. Lockett and Geoffrey A. Godden, Davenport China, Earthenware & Glass 1794-1887 (1989), p. 85, pl. 43 for a similar marked Davenport example in the Willett Collection, Brighton.