Lot Essay
Compare Howard and Ayers, op. cit., pp. 588-9, pl. 613 for a very similar pair also with blue painted bases.
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QIANLONG PERIOD
Details
A FAMILLE ROSE PHEASANT
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modelled standing alert, its feathers picked out in bright shades of blue, orange, yellow, green and purple, on a rocky mound base
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modelled standing alert, its feathers picked out in bright shades of blue, orange, yellow, green and purple, on a rocky mound base
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
Provenance
The Collection of Lady Sarah Churchill, Christie's, New York, 23 September 1988, lot 478
Literature
D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 266-7, pl. 320