Lot 116
116
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURES OF CRESTED PHEASANTS looking sharply to the left and right perched on tall brown, blue, green, white and deep pink-splashed rockwork, variously enamelled with iron-red body, yellow legs, pink head, iron-red and gilt crest, and multi-coloured wing-tips and tail feathers, one with reddish-yellow and the other with greenish-blue striped neck feathers (one minor chip to foot, other beak repaired, tail chip overpainted), Qianlong

Details
A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURES OF CRESTED PHEASANTS looking sharply to the left and right perched on tall brown, blue, green, white and deep pink-splashed rockwork, variously enamelled with iron-red body, yellow legs, pink head, iron-red and gilt crest, and multi-coloured wing-tips and tail feathers, one with reddish-yellow and the other with greenish-blue striped neck feathers (one minor chip to foot, other beak repaired, tail chip overpainted), Qianlong
35cm. high (2)
Provenance
The Rt. Hon. Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., sold in these Rooms, 8th December 1933 (¨630, to Holt).
Mr David and the Lady Pamela Hicks, Britwell House, sold on the premises 20-22 March 1979, lot 741

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair of pheasants in the Copeland Collection illustrated by W. Sargent, op. cit., no.68, pp.150-1; and another pair illustrated by du Boulay, op. cit., p.301, no.9. Similar pairs of pheasants with comparable richly-coloured plumage and size were sold in these Rooms, 12 March 1940, from the Collection of H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent; and 20 October 1958, lot 62, from the Collection of Lt. Col. Humphrey Nicholson, MC, TD

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