The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Plate (assiette unie)
c. 1794
manufacturer
(French, est. 1756)
painter
(French, 1733–1806)
Diameter: 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1962.359
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
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.- R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Hawley, Henry. "French Ceramics: The Norweb Collection." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71 (January 1984): 3-15. p. 12-13, fig. 14
- Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
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