Details
Each ewer formed as a cockerel, its large pink tailfeather as the handle, its plumage picked out in colorful enamels, with its headcomb, wattle and breast in pink
638 in. (16.2 cm.) high
Provenance
The collection of J.P. Morgan, New York, inv. no. 1079 and 1080 (per labels).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 2 December 1993, lot 343.
Literature
Catalogue of the Mogan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, Privately Printed by Order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1904, p. 164 and p. 195, case 44, nos. 1081 and 1082.
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