Caption

Peacock figurine, Chinese, Qing dynasty 1644–1911, 19th century. Ceramic colored porcelain sculpture depicting a peacock with peacock-feather ornament, images of birds, plum trees, tree trunks, and flowers. Height 54.5 cm; width 14.0 cm; depth 12.5 cm; weight 2.9 kg., A ceramic sculpture of a bird perched on a textured base, shown against a plain pale gray background. The bird has a long curved neck and a small head topped with a crest that is reddish-orange. Its body shows soft gradients of pale green, bluish-gray, and light pink, with layered wing feathers rendered in muted blue-gray tones. A flowing tail cascades down the base with eye-like feather patterns in green, teal, and cream, accented with orange feathers. The base has a marbled and weathered appearance in blue-gray and darker gray, with small raised floral decorations in cream and pale yellow and a few circular openings. The overall color palette includes pale green, blue-gray, teal, green, orange, cream, pale yellow, pink, reddish-orange, and darker gray.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A22_258

License type

Rights managed

Available size

68.7Mb (1.8Mb) / 13.3in x 20.0in / 4000 x 6000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Peacock figurine Chinese Qing dynasty 1644–1911 19th century Ceramic colored porcelain sculpture depicting peacock peacock-feather ornament images birds plum trees tree trunks flowers Height 54.5 cm width 14.0 cm depth 12.5 cm weight 2.9 kg ceramic sculpture bird perched textured base shown plain pale gray background bird long curved neck small head topped crest reddish-orange body soft gradients pale green bluish-gray light pink layered wing feathers rendered muted blue-gray tones flowing tail cascades down base eye- feather patterns green teal cream accented orange feathers marbled weathered appearance blue-gray darker gray small raised floral decorations pale yellow circular openings color palette includes orange pink darker gray.