CIRCA 1785, BLUE SCRIPT F. MARK AND IMPRESSED T. TO EACH

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FOUR FURSTENBERG ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATES
CIRCA 1785, BLUE SCRIPT F. MARK AND IMPRESSED T. TO EACH
Each painted with a variant bird perched in a tree, the shaped border with scattered flower spigs and insects, gilt line rim
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter (4)

Provenance

The Estate of David W. Peck, Sotheby's, New York, 24 April 1992, lot 108 (six plates).

Lot Essay

For a plate painted by the same hand on a similarly-marked ozier-moulded blank, see anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 October 1982, lot 71. For a tureen and two more plates also painted by this same hand, see Weisses Gold aus Fürstenberg, exhibition catalogue, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster and Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 1989, pp. 188-189, pls. 78-80.

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