CIRCA 1750, RAISED RED ANCHOR MARK

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A Chelsea model of a Chinese pheasant
Circa 1750, raised red anchor mark
Decorated in the London workshop of William Duesbury, naturally modelled and perched astride a tapering tree-stump, with purple and red head-feathers, and purple body, wing and tail-feathers and iron-red legs, the tree-stump applied with branches and moulded and applied with coloured flowers and foliage (two pieces broken from back and repaired, broken through tree-stump and repaired, associated damage to supporting branch which has two pieces lacking, two small branches lacking, chipping to foliage and end of three tail-feathers, broken through neck and repaired, some restoration to beak and tail feathers)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Cf. F. Severne Mackenna, op. cit. (London, 1948), pl. 33, fig. 68.
The model is perhaps derived from the engraving from George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds (London, 1743), vol. II, pl. 66.

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