Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1750-1770 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 37 centimetres Width: 22 centimetres Depth: 16 centimetres
Description:
Pair of ‘famille rose’ figures of cockerels. The cockerels are modelled as a corresponding pair, each perched with one foot raised, on brown rocks. They are painted in realistic detail with layers of overlapping feathers on the wings and scales on the feet, and have yellow feathers, brown wings, black tails, scarlet combs and wattles, and claws.
IMG
![图片[1]-figure BM-Franks.313-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00358924_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-Franks.313-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00290229_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-figure BM-Franks.313-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00299792_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:These cockerels; like BM Franks. 312, BM Franks. 313B and BM Franks. 311; belong to a series of mass-produced bird, animal and human figures made after Western models for the European market, and are purely ornamental. In Europe such pieces were displayed alongside other Chinese, Japanese and European porcelain figures on chimney pieces, wall fittings and special stands, in cabinets or on tables. The Library of the Chinese Pavillion at Drottningholm, near Stockholm, Sweden, built in 1753 as a birthday gift from Adolf Fredrik, King of Sweden, for his wife Queen Lovisa Ulrica, contained according to an inventory of 1777 four pairs of cockerels of the same size as the present birds, as well as two smaller pairs (Setterwall, Fogelmarck and Gyllensvard, 1974, pp. 295-6). Other similarly modelled cockerels of different colouring are a single one in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. II, no. 606); and a pair in the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Sargent, 1991, no. 66), which also owns a second pair with different bases (ibid., no. 65).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 37 centimetres Width: 22 centimetres Depth: 16 centimetres
Description:
Pair of ‘famille rose’ figures of cockerels. The cockerels are modelled as a corresponding pair, each perched with one foot raised, on brown rocks. They are painted in realistic detail with layers of overlapping feathers on the wings and scales on the feet, and have yellow feathers, brown wings, black tails, scarlet combs and wattles, and claws.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:These cockerels; like BM Franks. 312, BM Franks. 313B and BM Franks. 311; belong to a series of mass-produced bird, animal and human figures made after Western models for the European market, and are purely ornamental. In Europe such pieces were displayed alongside other Chinese, Japanese and European porcelain figures on chimney pieces, wall fittings and special stands, in cabinets or on tables. The Library of the Chinese Pavillion at Drottningholm, near Stockholm, Sweden, built in 1753 as a birthday gift from Adolf Fredrik, King of Sweden, for his wife Queen Lovisa Ulrica, contained according to an inventory of 1777 four pairs of cockerels of the same size as the present birds, as well as two smaller pairs (Setterwall, Fogelmarck and Gyllensvard, 1974, pp. 295-6). Other similarly modelled cockerels of different colouring are a single one in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. II, no. 606); and a pair in the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Sargent, 1991, no. 66), which also owns a second pair with different bases (ibid., no. 65).
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