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Lot Essay
Birds of this type were brought over in large quantities by the East India Companies in the early 18th Century. See P.J. Donnelly, op.cit., 1969, pl.109C, p.186; the single cockerel illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, op.cit, 1987, pl.346, p.248; and another from the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., 1978, vol. 1, pl.66.