A pottery bird whistle
Early 19th century, possibly Staffordshire
Modelled with a bird perched on a branch of a stylised tree flanked by smaller birds, on conical foot, enriched in pale-coloured slip with tortoiseshell streaking (tail of smaller bird broken off, small glaze chips)
9½ in. (24.7 cm.) high
拍品專文
Cf. Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (1967), p.34, fig. 65.