DEHUA FIGURE OF A COCKEREL, KANGXI PERIOD

DEHUA FIGURE OF A COCKEREL, KANGXI PERIOD, the bird with its head raised and mouth open, standing on a rocky base, 15cm high Provenance: The Collection of Dr Bernard Watney, Bonham's London, 13th May 2010, part of lot 306. Note: the 1706 sale of the East Indiaman Tavistock records "four white cockerels". See Godden, G., Oriental Export Market Porcelain, 1979, p.277. Marchant London also exhibited an example in their 1985 Blanc-de-Chine Exhibition, no.58. For another see Donnelly, P.J., Blanc de Chine, London 1969, pl.109D.