A PAIR OF EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE HAWK BOXES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1750

Details

A PAIR OF EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE HAWK BOXES AND COVERS
CIRCA 1750
Each pink-breasted bird is modeled with its colorful wings outstretched and its head is turned to one side.
8 ¼ in. (20.8 cm.) long

Provenance

With Cohen & Cohen, London.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.

Literature

Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, p. 272.

Lot Essay

This form was likely used as a trinket box, rather than on the dining room table. For a nearly identical pair see Christie's New York, 23 January 2012, lot 445. Also see W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, pp. 172-3, no. 80, for a brown-colored pair in The Peabody Museum of Salem.

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