A PAIR OF BOW MODELS OF FINCHES AND A BOW MODEL OF A PHEASANT

CIRCA 1760, BLUE I TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE PHEASANT

細節

A PAIR OF BOW MODELS OF FINCHES AND A BOW MODEL OF A PHEASANT
Circa 1760, blue I to the underside of the pheasant
Each perched on a treestump, its plumage picked out in purple and enriched in colours, the finches with clusters of flowers amidst spikey leaves, the pheasant with variant flowers on a naturalistic base
4 1/8in. (10.4cm.) high, the finches; 5½in. (13.9cm.) high, the pheasant (3)

來源

With Philip Suval, New York, 1960 (the finches)
James Donahue, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 2-4 November 1967, lot 155
With The Antique Porcelain Company, New York, (the pheasant)

拍品專文

For an example of a pheasant on a taller treestump also applied with flowers but terminating in a foliate scroll and with the same blue I mark as the present example, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, plate 87, fig. 262.