A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN MODELS OF A HEN AND ROOSTER

CIRCA 1755-65, IRON-RED ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARKS

Details

A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN MODELS OF A HEN AND ROOSTER
CIRCA 1755-65, IRON-RED ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARKS
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, the rooster

Provenance

Radford Collection; Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1943, lot 81.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1948.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, pl. 75, fig. 255.

Sale room notice

It has been suggested that the decoration on these birds may be slightly later than that of the porcelain, possibly by William Brown at Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell or at the Bow factory site in the mid 1770s, shortly before its closure.

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