Lot Details
Lot 67
Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain 'Snowman' Taperstick Models of Birds
Circa 1750, unmarked
In opposition, each long neck crested bird modeled pinning a snake or branch beneath its powerful claws, one with raised wing, the other folded, both before a grapevine stump on a rockwork base.
Height 6 1/4 inches, length 7 1/2 inches.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 22 February 1971, lot 73.
No other examples of these models are currently extant. For a pair of `Snowman' turkey cocks, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 3a. A third turkey cock can be found in the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; The Ruby Ashdown Collection of Decorative Art, accession no. 2009-234. For a pair of biscuit crested pheasants, see the Rous Lench Collection, sold, Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 422. Compare three examples in the Katz Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession no. 1988.989; 1988.987; 1988.997. For a discussion on these model and other, see Bernard Watney, 'Snowman figures from Longton Hall, Staffordshire', Antiques, August 1974. For a Longton Hall model of a heron from the Rous Lench Collection, see Christie's, London, 2 November 1998, lot 77.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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