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A PAIR OF ALCORA OIL AND VINEGAR BOTTLES
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A PAIR OF ALCORA OIL AND VINEGAR BOTTLES

LAST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, THE METAL STOPPERS 19TH CENTURY, MANGANESE A MARKS

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A PAIR OF ALCORA OIL AND VINEGAR BOTTLES
LAST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, THE METAL STOPPERS 19TH CENTURY, MANGANESE A MARKS
Naturally modelled to the left and right as a cockerel and a hen with the initials V and A (vinagre and aciete), with green, yellow, manganese and brown plumage and iron-red crests and wattles, their backs with openings fitted with metal stoppers and with pierced holes behind the crests, on oval green mound bases (both with chipping and restoration to beaks, cockerel with chip to end of tail feathers, hen with restoration below tail and to base)
The cockerel 5 in. (12.8 cm.) long; the hen 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) long (2)
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Lot Essay

These are apperently similar to the examples illustrated with a basketwork stand by Manuel Coride de Casal, Historia de la Ceramica de Alcora (Madrid, 1945), pl. LXXXI; see also Margaret E. Connor McQuade et. al., 'Alcora en Nueva York, La Colección de Cerámica de Alcora, The hispanic Society of America', Catalogue (New York, 2005), pp. 328-9.

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