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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF COCKATIELS
JIAQING PERIOD
Details
A PAIR OF COCKATIELS
JIAQING PERIOD
The birds shown standing on craggy rocks in mirror image, each with shaded iron-red breast and a curling iron-red crest, their beady black eyes set into heads finely delineated with purple feather detail and their folded wings picked out in green, cream and purple carefully highlighted in gilt, bright yellow beaks
18 7/8 in. (48 cm.) high (2)
JIAQING PERIOD
The birds shown standing on craggy rocks in mirror image, each with shaded iron-red breast and a curling iron-red crest, their beady black eyes set into heads finely delineated with purple feather detail and their folded wings picked out in green, cream and purple carefully highlighted in gilt, bright yellow beaks
18 7/8 in. (48 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
With Frank Caro, New York, 1965.