each modelled and fired red earthenware, comprising two figures of birds, the head of a horse and the face of a mythical beast, 16.5cm high and smaller

Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent.

For similar, larger clay figures of birds in the Walter-Grounds Collection, see Pratapatitya Pal, 'Icons of Piety, Images of Whimsy', Los Angeles 1987, nos.58 & 60, pp.93, 95 & 96.