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Rooster

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Fantastic, rooster-like bird, crested, with head turned, looking over back. On rock-like brown base with green spots, slightly iridescent. Bird has large yellow claws with black stripes. pale, robin's egg blue breast streaked with black. Red-spotted crest, and salmon, blue, lavendar, green, tan, plumage and long tail streaked and lined with gold.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Date
20th century
Credit Line
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis
Medium
porcelain
Dimensions
28.4 x 15 x 13 cm (11 3/16 x 5 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Type
ceramics
Decorative Arts
Object Name
Figure
Type
Figure
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