拍品 89
89
A FAMILLE ROSE HAWK
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A FAMILLE ROSE HAWK

QIANLONG PERIOD

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A FAMILLE ROSE HAWK
QIANLONG PERIOD
The raptor perched on colorfully splashed rockwork, his head turned to one side with gilt-rimmed black eyes in beady stare, the plumage on his folded wings picked out in gilt and tones of sepia and his head and breast pale sepia with sepia markings, the beak black
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high

拍品專文

Two hawks of this model are illustrated by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, pp. 150-1. Commenting on a similar bird in the Hodroff Collection D.S. Howard writes "...such birds were undoubtedly an exciting part of the Private Trade...". (The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 265).