CIRCA 1770-80

細節

A RARE FAMILLE ROSE MONOGRAMMED COCKEREL TUREEN AND COVER
Circa 1770-80
The iron-red body with gilt initials within a roundel at the breast, continuing to a shaded pink tone above the tucked-in pale yellow feet, with pink face, comb and wattle, yellow and iron-red neck feathers extending along the back, the wings and tail moulded with rows of feathers and brightly enamelled in shades of blue, yellow, pink, turquoise, sepia, green and aubergine and highlighted with gilt details, base cracked, comb restored
15 in. (38 cm.) high, 13½ in. (34 cm.) wide

來源

James McBey

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拍品專文

A similar cockerel tureen and cover, but without initials and without the rose enamels, is in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, illustrated by W. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, pp. 209-211, no. 101; and another was in the John T. Dorrance, Jr. Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 20 and 21 October 1989, lot 455. Compare also the famille rose armorial cockerel tureen and cover, with stand, of similar form and size to the present lot, made for the Basque family of Asteguieta, sold in these Rooms, together with other pieces from the service, 16 March 1981, lot 69.