A BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE & CO. ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATTER

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A BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE & CO. ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATTER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BROWN PRINTED MARK, 1893 CHICAGO EXHIBITION LABEL, SIGNED J. BIRBECK

Naturalistically painted with a woodcock and gilt with a foliate scroll at the right, named on the reverse in iron-red, the fluted border gilt with alternate foliate scrolls and diapers
17 5/8 (44.8cm.) wide

拍品專文

The exhibition label is likely that of the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. It is likely that the present platter was included in the booth in which Brown-Westhead & Moore & Co. of Cauldon exhibited.