Set of Twelve Audubon Birds of America Plates

Set of six blue and white bird plates. Set of six 20th century Sèvres style gilt and painted dinner plates with blue banded and gilt borders...

Set of twelve English fish plates. Twelve plates featuring various freshwater fish of the British Isles. Assembled set includes 3 Tench, 3 Salmon, 2 R...

A set of five matching exotic bird plates by Copeland Spode. All with marks on the reverse. Circa 1815, England.

**Set of 5 French Porcelain Ornithological Dessert Plates Nast Factory, Paris, Early 19th Century** A refined and rare matched set of five ornithological dessert plates by the esteemed *Manufacture de Nast*, Paris, dating to the early 19th century. Each plate is finely painted with a unique exotic bird specimen, identified in elegant script to the reverse—*Le Guêpier de France*, *Aninga de Caienne*, *Le Sacre, femelle*, *Le Chirurgien ou Jacana du Brésil*, and *Pie-Grieche rouge*—and centered within a meticulously rendered arboreal setting. These depictions likely derive from contemporary natural history engravings, in keeping with the period’s neoclassical fascination with scientific exploration and taxonomy. The wide border is richly decorated with an incised and gilt stylized fern or palm frond motif, elegantly encircling the cavetto and highlighted with a burnished gilt rim. The ornithological scenes are executed with exceptional detail, attesting to the skill of the Nast atelier’s painters and gilders. Each plate bears the red printed mark *Nast à Paris...