A FAMILLE ROSE MODEL OF A HAWK

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A FAMILLE ROSE MODEL OF A HAWK
QIANLONG PERIOD

Finely modelled perched on blue rockwork with head cocked, his breast and head iron-red with gilt feather details and his folded wings richly enamelled with overlapping feathers in pink, yellow, iron-red, black, blue, sepia and green enamel (slight flaking to enamels of beak and feathers)--6½in. (16.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a pair of similar hawks from the W.J. Holt Collection see R. L. Hobson, B. Rackham and W. King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, fig. 268. Another was sold Christie's New York, September 23, 1988, lot 473.