CIRCA 1760

Details

A Bow model of a cockerel
Circa 1760
Naturally modelled and coloured in yellow, brown and grey plumage, with sgraffito breast and tail feathers and red wattle and comb, on a shaped circular mound base moulded with puce scrolls and applied with three coloured flowers and foliage
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Bought from Winifred Williams, London, October 1980.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For a similar model, see Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain, The Collection Formed by Geoffrey Freeman (London, 1982), p.156, no. 266; Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (London, 1991), pl. 141, illustrates a similar model, but as part of a group; see also Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain Pottery ad Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1957), pl. 92, fig. 256.

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