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Plate (assiette unie)

c. 1794
(French, est. 1756)
(French, 1733–1806)
France, Sèvres, late 18th Century
Soft paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Diameter: 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1962.359
Location: not on view
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Identified on the back of the plate as Cotinga, du Cayenne, the bird represented is a spangled continga, a species found in the Amazon rainforest.

Description

French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc’s The Natural History of Birds provided models for bird painting in mid-18th-century France. Engravings in this book by François-Nicolas Marinet likely inspired the bird painted on this plate. These popular representations responded to a growing 18th-century French interest in biologically accurate representations of the natural world.
Plate (assiette unie)

Plate (assiette unie)

c. 1794

Sèvres Porcelain Factory, Etienne Evans

(French, est. 1756), (French, 1733–1806)
France, Sèvres, late 18th Century

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