The cockerel finely modeled, standing rock work base with grass, the details of his plumage ridged, incised and splashed in colored glazes. Eyes, ears, comb and wattles are left in biscuit.
The cockerel finely modeled, standing rock work base with grass, the details of his plumage ridged, incised and splashed in colored glazes. Eyes, ears, comb and wattles are left in biscuit.
For a very similar pair of cockerels, from the Anthony de Rothschild collection, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics: The Anthony de Rothschild collection, pp. 408/409, 1996, no. 231.
Two figures are published by William R. Sargent in
For a pair of figures, see Christie’s NYC, Chinese Export Art, 24 January 2005, lot 49.
A related model biscuit model is published by Howard & Ayers in
William Sargent noticed in The Copeland Collection that this figure represents the oldest purebred domestic fowl (commonly identified as Asia game cocks) of a train developed as fighting cocks. Cock fights were known to have been popular in China as early as the first millenium B.C.
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