'Fuglestellet' four porcelain plates, barbed rim model with cartouches in relief "Skilte Model", decorated in colours and gold with birds and scattered insects. Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory. Circa 1780. Diam. 25.5 cm. (4) The bird decorations derive from various copper engravings from circa 1775. Among others J.E. Ridinger: Raub Vögel bey Tage, 1781. G.F. Riedel: Sammlung von Feder Vieh besonders Haus Geflügel nuzlich Fabriquen 1775 and I.M. Seeligmann: Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltner Vögel 1753. Illustrated in Bredo L. Grandjean: Kongelig Dansk Porcelain, 1962. P. 92. Alle with chips/cracks and older repairs hereof, a plate with a larger chip - a fragment enclosed.