Important Americana: Silver, Chinese Export, and Prints

Important Americana: Silver, Chinese Export, and Prints

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Property of an Important Midwestern Collection

A Chinese Export Famille-rose Figure of a Pheasant, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period | 清乾隆 粉彩錦雞擺件

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January 22, 06:41 PM GMT

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7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Property of an Important Midwestern Collection

A Chinese Export Famille-rose Figure of a Pheasant

Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period

清乾隆 粉彩錦雞擺件


modeled perched atop a pierced base, with head turned to the right, the feathers brilliantly enameled in sepia, purple, yellow, red, pink, blue and green

height 14 in.; 35.6 cm

Collection of Lady Sarah Churchill
Christie's New York, September 23rd, 1988, lot 478
Collection of Leo and Doris Hodroff
Christie's New York, January 23rd, 2008, lot 414
David S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, cat. no. 320
A closely related pair is illustrated in David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, vol. II, cat. no. 613, and later sold in these rooms, January 27th, 1988, lot 377, and again at Christie's New York, January 28th, 1995, lot 1050.