Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

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A RARE BOW PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PEACOCK CIRCA 1758

Auction Closed

October 23, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A RARE BOW PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PEACOCK CIRCA 1758


naturalistically modeled and painted, perched upon a flower-encrusted tree stump.

Height 6⅜ in.

16.3 cm

Phillips, London, September 10, 1986, lot 188

A similar example of this rare model and its companion are illustrated in Ann McNair, Catalogue of the Lady Ludlow Collection of English Porcelain at the Bowes Museum, London, 2007, p. 52, no. 26.