An Alcora faience duck-tureen and cover
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An Alcora faience duck-tureen and cover

MID-18TH CENTURY, OCHRE 6 A I MARK TO BASE

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An Alcora faience duck-tureen and cover
Mid-18th Century, ochre 6 A I mark to base
With its head turned slightly to its left, a chick perched on its back forming the finial, the duck with a yellow beak, its head and neck with green plumage, its ochre and brown underside and tail with manganese markings, its yellow and manganese webbed feet astride a waisted oval foot edged with a blue band, the cover formed as its wings with bands of green, and manganese plumage with brown, green, ochre and manganese markings (broken through chest and restuck with an associated restored rim chip and branching crack to lower part, beak to be restuck, small areas of over-painting to disguise break, small rim chip and small restored rim chip, tail with slight flaking to glaze, the cover with slight chipping to rim, chick restuck, chip to beak)
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

See Conde de Casal, Historia de la Cerámica de Alcora (Madrid, 1945), pl. 82, no. 9, for a similar tureen.

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