Polychrome Delft Bird
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A Figure of a Bird in Polychrome Dutch Delftware
With a yellow head and breast with Iron-red- delineated plumage, a green back and blue crest. Perched on a `perforated rock´.
Models of birds of this kind were produced in quite large numbers by Chinese potters during the Kangxi-period. These bird found great appreciation among the Delft potters, who began to imitate them.
Models of birds of this kind were produced in quite large numbers by Chinese potters during the Kangxi-period. These bird found great appreciation among the Delft potters, who began to imitate them.
- Origin
- Delft, The Netherlands
- Period
- Approximately 1770
- Signature
- Marked in blue with " * " for `De Witte Starre´ (white star) factory´.
- Reference
- 112-512
- Sizes
- 9.3 cm
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