
Fergus Gambon
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Provenance
Distinguished Private Collection
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The model with the companion hen is illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbrock, The Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl.92, fig.256. See also a version of the cockerel in the Victoria and Albert Museum (acc. no. C.229-1940) and that sold by Bonhams on 10 December 2008, lot 62. A very similar cockerel forms part of a group of a cock and hen, illustrated by Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (1981), p.201, fig.131. For slightly earlier versions of the models on plain mound bases see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.156, no.266 and col. pl.9.