A FAMILLE ROSE FIGURE OF A CRANE standing on a mottled blue ground beside a gnarled tree trunk bearing prunus blossoms, the crane with incised feather markings under a white glaze with sepia feathers on the neck, shoulder and either side of the tail, olive green legs and beak and an iron-red crest (restored, beak tip chipped), Qianlong

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A FAMILLE ROSE FIGURE OF A CRANE standing on a mottled blue ground beside a gnarled tree trunk bearing prunus blossoms, the crane with incised feather markings under a white glaze with sepia feathers on the neck, shoulder and either side of the tail, olive green legs and beak and an iron-red crest (restored, beak tip chipped), Qianlong
18cm. high

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See W. R. Sargent, op. cit.,, p.154, fig.70 for a similar example in the Copeland Collection

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