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A RARE CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL FIGURE OF A COCKEREL
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The cockerel is shown standing on a gilt-bronze hexagonal base textured in
imitation of earth and encircled by a blue-enamelled balustrade. Its head is
decorated with a red comb and wattles, and the neck with overlapping rows of
feathers. The separately made wings overlap the individual narrow blue feathers
which fank the base of the arched multi-colored tail feathers.
10 in. (25.4 cm.) long
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
Spink & Son, London, 1996.
Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 299.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.
No other cockerel of this type, with the feathers not only in champlevé enamel but
constructed in the same unusual fashion, with feathers individually made in order to appear
more realistic, appears to have been published.
清康熙 鏨胎琺瑯錦雞擺件
