Superbly modelled as sitting, crowing cockerels and brilliantly enamelled in green, iron red, gold and black, each set on a flat octagonal base decorated with green and gold flowerheads, their feathers well delineated in iron red, their combs in red, their open beaks in gold, their faces and necks in iron red and gold, their plumage finely etched in iron red and gold, their wings decorated with three panels of ribbed gold, ribbed purple and green and black overlapping disks, their flowing tail feathers in alternating bands of black, iron red and gold, on each white breast a single gold disk edged in iron red, the base hollow and unglazed.
Literature
For a similar example, but on an integral base, see Japanese Export Porcelain, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, by Oliver Impey, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2002, page 194, plate 310.
