1526
Figure — CRC# 1526
- Description
- One of an extremely rare pair of Plymouth models of pheasants, each modelled with head turned, and tail feathers raised, its plumage decorated in yellow, pale blue, puce, brown and iron red, on tree-stump shaped base, applied with coloured flowers and leaves, circa 1768-70, no marks
- Service
- Figure
- Date
- 1768-70
- Size
- 5 3/8” high,
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- No mark
- Mark Group
- No mark
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Historic Provenance
- Sotheby’s, London, 14th May 1974, lot 125. See F S Mackenna, Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, numbers 45 and 46, for a pair of taller models of pheasants, in the white. A coloured pair of this larger model is in the Lady Ludlow Collection, Bowes Museum
- CRC#
- 1526
- Type
- Figure