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A RARE PAIR OF ‘ROOSTING PARTRIDGE’ TUREENS, COVERS The partridges are modeled roosting on the ground (as partridges
AND STANDS do, in the wild), with the wings opened slightly to the sides. They are
Qianlong period, circa 1775 delicately enameled in life-like colors, possibly copied from an as yet
Each roosting bird formed in two parts, the exterior of both upper and unidentified European model, though they resemble boxes and covers
lower section enameled in soft tones of sepia and black as the wing made at the Bow factory. The species of birds can be clearly identified
feathers, the chest with paler parallel rows of simulated feathers to as the English partridge (Perdix perdix, Linnaeus 1758), which is also
suggest the softer down, the beaks and feet pale yellow, the stands found in Northwest China. Similarly shaped boxes were also created
with three small sprays of flowers within a metal-shaped molded in nephrite jade in China, intended for a very different and domestic
sinuous and grooved border enameled with single feathers matching market.
the plumage on the birds’ wings.
the stands: 9in (23cm) long (2). The modelling of the wings, which appears to depict an accurate
observation of a ‘hanging wing’, a trait seen in many ground-nesting
$18,000 - 25,000 game birds, is a most unusual depiction. When in danger, these birds
will drag a wing limply to one side to appear wounded, thus distracting
乾隆時期 約1775年 珍稀《臥鷓鴣》帶蓋湯盆暨托盤組一對 any predator from a nest or young nearby.

Provenance: References: a setting quail in the Peabody Essex Museum, Copeland
Fred Nadler, New Jersey Collection, illustrated by Sargent 1991, p. 204; Cohen & Motley 2008,
Sotheby’s Monaco pp. 216-222 for a discussion of bird species modelled in Chinese
export porcelain; and Bukowski 2006, for the auction of a pair of
Published: tureens of this model with ormolu mounts and bases.
Cohen & Cohen, Angels & Demonslayers, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 52-
53, no. 31
來源：
新澤西Fred Nadler舊藏
摩納哥蘇富比
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Angels & Demonslayers》，香
港，2012年，頁52-53，圖版編號31

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