A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT BUTTERDISHES WITH COVERS AS A PLOVER (kieviten), painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, the oval dishes in relief with green rockwork, the covers as recumbent plovers with blue and green scale-patterned plumage, with sloping tail, the ruff in manganese-red, the head with pointed feather (one cover very restored, with missing beak, one cover with restored beak and head feather), both covers marked DK above 4 and 2, both dishes marked HKD above 2 and 2, for Hendrik de Koningh, mid 18th Century