A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PARROTS

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PARROTS
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each modelled standing alert and open beaked, their feathers picked out in shades of black, green, yellow and purple, their green eyes surrounded by orange eye rings, standing on rocky mound bases
8 in. (20.2 cm.) high, the slightly taller (2)

Literature

Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 269, pl. 322

Lot Essay

D.S. Howard notes that the 'naturalistic poses' and 'unfamiliar coloring' indicate that these birds are 19th century and 'a rare model of which only one other pair is recorded'. The other pair was sold in our London rooms, anon. sale, 1 November 1993, lot 27.

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