A DUTCH DELFT PERCHED PARROT, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief after a K'ang Hsi example, the beak blue, the head green, the eye feathers manganese-red, the wings in yellow, blue, green, red and manganese-red, the breast with scale-patterned feathers in relief, the paws green, the blue claws on yellow perch, on arched flat green base, its sides marbled, circa 1750 circa 21.5 cm high
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A DUTCH DELFT PERCHED PARROT, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief after a K'ang Hsi example, the beak blue, the head green, the eye feathers manganese-red, the wings in yellow, blue, green, red and manganese-red, the breast with scale-patterned feathers in relief, the paws green, the blue claws on yellow perch, on arched flat green base, its sides marbled, circa 1750 circa 21.5 cm high
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Similar examples sold in our Amsterdam rooms, 6 November 1990, lots 101 & 102.
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