Chelsea
(England 1744–1769)
Black and white Chinese cock pheasant
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
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’.
- Year
- circa 1750-circa 1752
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 22.3 x 10.5 x 6.7 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.204
