A DUTCH DELFT LOZENGE-SHAPED ORNITHOLOGICAL PLAQUE, painted in colours with two birds of paradise perched on flowering chrysanthemum branches issuing from tied rushes and fences, beside a pond, with further dragonflies, the shaped raised borders with a manganese-red ground border of leaves, pierced with a hole (a clip to the border) 18th Century (in large fitted étui)

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A DUTCH DELFT LOZENGE-SHAPED ORNITHOLOGICAL PLAQUE, painted in colours with two birds of paradise perched on flowering chrysanthemum branches issuing from tied rushes and fences, beside a pond, with further dragonflies, the shaped raised borders with a manganese-red ground border of leaves, pierced with a hole (a clip to the border) 18th Century (in large fitted étui)
37 cm wide
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Collection Voûte, Amsterdam
Collection Vecht, Amsterdam

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