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Lot 121

Two rare Bow models of cockerels, circa 1760

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two rare Bow models of cockerels, circa 1760

Modelled standing, their heads tilted to one side, with pale red wattles and combs, their plumage coloured in shades of yellow and brown, one also with puce wings and green tail feathers, the mound bases moulded with scrollwork picked out in puce, applied with flowers, leaves and mossy patches, 10.5cm and 11cm high (2)

Footnotes

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.

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