A DELFT DORE SQUARE ORNITHOLOGICAL CHINOISERIE PLAQUE, gilt and painted in colours with birds of paradise perched on a flowered chrysanthemum branch issuing from rockwork beside a pagoda, tied rushes, waterplants and a fence, with further birds of paradise, a leopard-type beast and a parrot on a fence, the canted raised border with scrolled motives, first half 18th Century (with large fitted étui)