Lot 142
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A PAIR OF BOW MODELS OF PEACOCKS
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A PAIR OF BOW MODELS OF PEACOCKS

CIRCA 1760

Details
A PAIR OF BOW MODELS OF PEACOCKS
CIRCA 1760
Perched to the left and right on flower-encrusted shaped rockwork, their plumage richly enamelled in blue, yellow, purple, green, brown and gilding (restoration to necks and peahen's tail and beak, plumes restored replacements)
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 10 December 1973, lot 155.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

See the Bow peacock illustrated by Frank Hurlbutt, Bow Porcelain (London, 1926), plate 30, also the pair in the Lady Ludow Collection, see Ann McNair, Catalogue of the Lady Ludlow Collection of English Porcelain at the Bowes Museum (London, 2007), p. 52, no. 26.

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