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A PARIS (PIERRE NEPPEL) ORNITHOLOGICAL PART DINNER AND DESSERT-SERVICE
Circa 1816
Painted in colours with named specimen birds perched on branches or in their natural habitats within wide borders richly gilt with oblong octagonal medallions of Bacchic trophies flanked by stylised anthemia, husks and foliage garlands and named with the bird at the top in a similar medallion between gilt line rims, comprising:
A pair of oviform ice-pails, cover and liners with gilt and biscuit caryatid handles, the covers with pine-cone finials (slight chips to three handles, repaired chip to one foot and rim of one cover repaired)
A pair of oval sauce-tureens, covers and attached stands with fixed gilt ring handles and gilt cone finials (one cover cracked, both finials repaired, one stand with slight rubbing to gilding)
Two flared circular bowls on circular spreading feet (one cracked across and with associated rim repair, the other with slight crack, one with chip to top of foot, the other with chip and repair to top of foot)
Four circular tazzas (one with slight crack to centre and with rim chip)
Two shell-shaped dishes (slight rubbing to gilt rims)
Twelve plates (one with slight rim chip), about 9 1/2in. (24cm.) diam.
Nine plates, one with a slightly different border with gilt butterflies in the medallions (five with slight rubbing to gilt rims, the last with minor flaking to enamels), about 9 1/8in. (23cm.) diam.
- the ice-pails with script Pre Neppel a Paris marks in gilt
