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Wall-Mounted Large Red Glazed Ceramic Rooster Designed by Amphora, Belgium

 

 

Rooster resurrection

 

The Year of the Rooster in 2017  has the potential to be an eventual one, with no middle of the road when it comes to moving forward. Being forthright, proactive and lucid will deliver results. Strutting your stuff in your finest threads won’t go astray either. It’s not really a year for procrastination or holding back. Concerning money, love, and business, there won’t be any need to indulge risks to get ahead, just being organised, methodical and persistent with clarity of intention will bring rewards. Shaking the tail feathers and being flamboyant will drive results in the year of the Red Fire Rooster.
It will be a good year for taking back control and bringing planned projects into fruition as well as launching new projects. Bold, striking creations will be popular in this Rooster Year. All of the Chinese animals can reap great rewards by tapping into the Rooster traits of loyalty, optimism, commitment, hard work and family.

 

 

‘Phoenix Rising’ – John Hair

 

 

Gaston Lachaise peacock sculptures, Bartow Pell Mansion Museum

1920, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx

 

Ceramic Peacock tiles, William De Morgan

The exotic and alluring peacock has been an inspiration for many artists, particularly because of its iridescent colors and large plume. Louis Comfort Tiffany, Aubrey Beardsley, Rene Lalique, Gaston Lachaise and Walter Crane all created stunning art at the turn of the 20th century that featured the peacock and its curves were easily adapted to the Art Nouveau aesthetic. Arcanely, the peacock also was an emblem of Resurrection—from the belief, perpetuated in medieval bestiaries, that its flesh did not decay. In Christianity it represented immortality, openness and acceptance. In Mesopotamia the peacock featured in a symbolic representation of a tree flanked by two peacocks, which indicated the dualistic mind and Absolute unity. The peacock thrives on the essence of poisonous plants, and prefers jungles to gardens with fragrant flowers and plants. It stands for beauty being born from a hostile environment, similar to the sacred lotus growing from muddy waters.

 

 

Hand carved Natural Shoushan Red Stone Phoenix Teapot

 

Depero Fortunato futurist rooster

 

 

 

Figural Rooster Vase – Zsolnay

Hungry

 

 

Rooster Strut – AilsaR-flickr

 

 

Art Nouveau peacock porcelain jar – Samuel Schellink, Holland

 

 

 

Gambone Guido, Italy

1959

 

 

Chinese dancing master Yang Liping (L) performs in her dance drama ‘The Peacock’ during the first Yang Liping International Dance Festival in Kunming

 

 

Feng-Huang/phoenix  public statue Nanning, China

 

Going back 8000 years to the Hongshan neolithic period, an ancient bird called the fenghuang appeared on jade and pottery motifs. Also known as the “August Rooster” it sometimes takes the place of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac. It also was known as the Chinese Phoenix and appeared on coins and bronze figurines and was a symbol of renewal and rejuvenation. Some believe they may have been a good-luck totem among eastern tribes of ancient China .
Scholars have observed analogues to the phoenix in a variety of cultures. These include the Hindu garuda, the Russian firebird, the Persian Simorgh, Georgian Paskunji, the Arabian Anka, the Tibetan Me byi karmo, the Chinese fenghuang and zhu que, and the Japanese hō-ō. According to some texts, the phoenix could live for over 1,400 years. The ancient Egyptians worshiped the Bennu bird (phoenix) as a deity linked with the sun, creation, and rebirth.

 

Egyptian Bennu

 

 

Egyptian Bennu (phoenix) bird

 

 

Rooster weathervane, Hamburg

 

 

Interior of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. Spain

Jordiferrer Wikipedia

 

There are numerous legends associated with the The Camino de Santiago, also known as the pilgrim’s “Way of Saint James”, involving the portents of rooster resurrection and crowing to prove a man’s innocence. One of the tales is of a young German pilgrim in the 14th Century, who was framed with the theft of a silver cup for shunning the advances of a Spanish girl. He met the gallows for his misfortune and only survived this ordeal with divine assistance and the timely arrival of his parents who saw he was still alive. On pleading with the magistrate while he was dining, who claimed he was no more alive than the roast bird on his table, as too much time had passed.  At this juncture. the rooster got up, fluffed its plume, which had miraculously returned, and began to dance and crow which led to the pilgrims rescue and freedom.

To this day they have kept live roosters at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada in honour of this legend.

 

 

Peacock plate, China

 

 

 

Folk Art pottery rooster jug – Mitchell Grafton

 

 

Constantin Brancusi, Cock,

 

 

Sargadelos ceramic rooster jug/ewer

 

 

 

Rene Lalique cockerel tiara

 

 

Aldo Londo Rimini Blue Bitossi Rooster

 

 

Marcello Fantoni, Italy

 

 

 

 

George Sellers white bisque peacock – Areté Collection

 

 

Stylized plume tail cockerel – Roger Capron

 

 

Twin rooster head vase – A.V.Smith Pottery

 

 

 Tatiana Ryaboushinskaya as Golden Cockerel  – projected shadows as set design

Ballet Russes -1938

 

 

Rooster Cookie Jar

 

 

 

A pair of glass rooster figurines – Billy & Katie Bernstein

 

 

Cockerel ceramic sculpture — Joe Lawrence

 

 

 

Jean Lucrat ceramic stylized Rooster tile

 

 

 

Copper Rooster

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Australia 2012

 

 

 

Ceramic Rooster Fontainebleau

Osenat Auctions

 

 

Chinese twin peacock bronze  vase

 

 

 

Majestic decorative ceramic rooster

 

 

 

Vase with large rooster motif  – Roger Capron

 

 

 

‘Cockerel’ –  British artist Breon O’Casey (1928-2011). Bronze/ black patina, 62 cm high.

via Mutual Art

 

 

 

‘Crowing Rooster’ – Delphin Massier

Vallauris

 

 

Dancing Cock by Joe Lawrence

 

 

 

‘His Morning Strut’ watercolor illustration by David Galchutt, California

Art.com

 

 

Ceramic hens piggy banks

 

 

‘Coq Disque’ – Joan Miro

 

 

Crowing ceramic rooster — Edmond Lachenal

France

 

Black abstract rooster – Georges Jouve Sculpture

1952

 

 

Strutting Rooster resin/bronze sculpture – Brian Hollingworth.

 

 

 

 

Four Roosters vase – Nan Hamilton

 

 

 

Harriet Barb Keith

 

 

Teal green and gold rooster – Sascha Brastoff

17 inches tall

 

 

Waylande Gregory Studios. USA

 

 

 

Meissen Cruet and Mustard Pot

 

 

 

Porto street rooster statue—Portugal

The Rooster of Barcelos (Portuguese, “Galo de Barcelos“) is one of the most common emblems of Portugal also celebrating the story of the rooster resurrection.

 

 

 

Meiji multi metal Okimono—Rooster

 

 

Jason Walker – ‘Cage Free Capitalism’

2014

 

 

Peacock mantle clock – Jay Strongwater

 

 

Contemporary ceramic rooster sculpture – Ken Sedberry, NC

 

 

Photography by Kristian Schuller

 

 

Large Cockerel, Spain

Photo –  B. O’Casey

 

Irving Penn photograph of Lisa Fonssagrives

 

 

Large ceramic peacock – Minton

Walker gallery, Liverpool, UK

 

 

Red and gold phoenix – Mkmack, etsy

 

 

 

Art Nouveau peacock vase

ArtDecor24. Poland

 

 

Peacock statue  – Phillip Jacksons garden, Sussex

 

 

Roger Capron sculpture bust

 

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Phoenix at St Paul’s Cathedral – underneath it says ‘Resurgam’, latin for reborn

speel.me.uk

 

 

Abstract Phoenix bronze sculpture – Trevor Askin

 

 

 

Bronze phoenix sculpture – Dan Pogue, Texas

height 22 inches

 

Phoenix rising, ‘Atlanta from the Ashes’

Woodruff Park

This sculpture was designed by James Siegler, of Houston, Texas, but it was both sculpted and fabricated in Italy, by Gamba Quirino, and Feruccia Vezzoni, respectively

 

 

Phoenix Sculpture Garden by Graham Radcliffe

Mount Glorious, QLD

 

 

‘Pioneer Woman With Rooster’,  – Carl Milles – 1946

ASHLEY JOHN GALLERY-Pam Beach Fl

 

 

 

Rooster bottle – Polia Pillin

 

 

 

Qing Dynasty Green Glaze Peacock bottle

 

 

 

Raku Chicken – -Hippopottermiss@deviantART

 

 

 

Oxblood glaze rooster – Royal Haeger

 

 

Mid Century Rooster by Perignem, Brussels, 1970

Wouter Harvey

 

 

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Cristine Boyd – black / white sgraffito roosters platter

 

 

 

Ceramic Cockerel sculpture- Sarah Farrelly

 

 

Red Ceramic Peacock – Vintage, USA

 

 

 

Sally Hook – ‘Year Of Rooster’

 

 

 

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