“The Bird Service” porcelain dish decorated in colours and gold with three birds in scenery and insects. Rim with swans and flowers in cartouches. Royal Copenhagen, 1785. L. 36,5 cm.
The bird decorations are taken from various engravings from c. 1775. Among others J.El. Ridinger: Raub Vögel Bey Tage, 1781. G.F. Riedel: Sammlung von Feder Vieh besonders Haus Geflügel nuzlich Fabriquen 1775 and IM Seeligmann: Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltner Vögel 1753. Depicted in Bredo L. Grandjean: Royal Danish Porcelain, 1962. P. 92.
rivet and chip at rim
Paintings, furniture and varia (postponed), 20 August 2020
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