Title
Black and white Chinese cock pheasant
circa 1750-circa 1752
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1750-circa 1752
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 22.3 x 10.5 x 6.7 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2010.204
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Chelsea
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About
The bird is copied from a plate in Part 2 of George Edwards’s ‘Natural history of uncommon birds’ published in 1747. The original drawing made from a bird in the garden of Sir Hans Sloane is in Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina. If the Chelsea decorator had consulted Edwards’s text he would have known that the bird should have a breast of ‘black with a purple gloss’.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The Lady and the Unicorn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Feb 2018–24 Jun 2018
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 54 (colour illus.). cat.no. 58
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