A DUTCH DELFT PARROT IN A LOOP, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with yellow ruff feathers enhanced with red hatches, its wings yellow and green bordered with blue, with green hat, yellow eyes surrounded with blue, its tuft yellow, its beak and paws dark manganese-red, perched on a yellow loop applied with a small ring for suspension (repaired), 18th Century | Christie's

Lot 220

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A DUTCH DELFT PARROT IN A LOOP, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with yellow ruff feathers enhanced with red hatches, its wings yellow and green bordered with blue, with green hat, yellow eyes surrounded with blue, its tuft yellow, its beak and paws dark manganese-red, perched on a yellow loop applied with a small ring for suspension (repaired), 18th Century

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A DUTCH DELFT PARROT IN A LOOP, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with yellow ruff feathers enhanced with red hatches, its wings yellow and green bordered with blue, with green hat, yellow eyes surrounded with blue, its tuft yellow, its beak and paws dark manganese-red, perched on a yellow loop applied with a small ring for suspension (repaired), 18th Century
24 cm high

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Lot Essay

C.f Boyazoglu and de Neuville, Les faiences de Delft, col. ill. 77 for a similar example in the Musée Sandelin, Saint Omer (France)

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