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Lot 9
A Group of Chinese Green Glazed Parrots
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
20th century, includes five parrots glazed in apple and emerald green, the birds are featured perched on sancai glazed craggy rocks, their wings tucked behind them, wide eyes and reddish orange beaks, with holes to reverse of their heads, purchased from Gumps, San Francisco.

Tallest 10 1/8 in.

From the Collection of the late James and Nelson Teague, Greensboro, North Carolina

Some rubbing and loss to glaze on beaks of all five birds; the tallest has a clip with loss to lower part of its beak; some nicks and chips to edges of base on three of the birds; drilled holes to reverse of heads on all five birds, one with extra loss to glaze around the hole.