QIANLONG PERIOD

細節

A RARE PAIR OF PURPLE-BREASTED HAWKS
QIANLONG PERIOD
The raptors perched on white rockwork splashed in blue, their heads turned to the side and their black eyes keenly focused, the beaks rose enamel and the top of their green heads with iron-red feathers edged in gilt, plumage picked out in a variety of enamels with contrasting details and their bright yellow talons marked in sepia, the breasts mottled and shaded purple
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)

來源

Sold Sotheby's London, 5 March 1974, lot 210
Sold Sotheby's Monaco, 27 May 1980, lot 994
The Estate of Ruth Phillips

拍品專文

Pairs of hawks or falcons, among the most lifelike of the Chinese bird models, with their heads jutted out just-so, were most often naturalistically enamelled in tones of sepia. (Compare the pair in the Copeland collection illustrated by W.R. Sargent, op. cit., p. 171, who records several references to hawks from 18th century auction catalogues.) The superb coloring of the present pair is quite unusual.