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On Display: House - Bertrand Room
Figure (Bird (hawk))
1750-1760
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Museum Object Number
2003.0013.059.001
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Mrs. Helen Shumway Mayer
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Object Number
2003.0013.059.001
Object Name
Figure (Bird (hawk))
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1750-1760
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Interior base
Inscription: White, rectangular label with "37/2" in blue ink
Type: Label
Location: Interior base
Inscription: Blank, red circular label
Type: Label
Location: Interior of base
Inscription: Black and gold D.M. & P. Manheim of New York dealer's label
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
5.5 (H) x 2.2 (W) x 3.9 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
14 (H) x 5.7 (W) x 9.8 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Grigsby, Leslie B. 1990 The Henry H. Weldon Collection: English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800.
• See related pieces: pls. 172 A, B. For a lead-glazed redware and a lead-glazed agateware example, see pl. 241.Book: Halfpenny, Patricia A. & Williams, Peter. 2000 A Passion for Pottery: Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection.
• For illustration and discussion of a white and brown salt-glazed example of this general hawk model, salt-glazed stoneware versions in different models, a creamware and a lead-glazed redware hawk: pls. 174-175.Book: Sargent, William R. 2014 Chinese Porcelain in the Conde Collection.
• Chinese export hawks and 1756 and 1769 Paris references to them: pp. 185-189, nos. 58, 59 (with Paris reference) and fig. 3, 1750-70