The bird crowing with wings folded, his tongues visible inside his open beak, his plumage picked out in incised detail, supported on triangular rockwork base.
The bird crowing with wings folded, his tongues visible inside his open beak, his plumage picked out in incised detail, supported on triangular rockwork base.
For a very similar cockerel see P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, Faber and Faber, 1969, pl. 109 D.
A enamelled 17th century Japanese version of this model is in Burghley House, published in `The Burghley Porcelains, An Exhibition from The Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule` (Japan Society, New York, 1986) p. 222/223, no. 90,
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