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A Fürstenberg porcelain ornithological rectangular wall plaque, circa 1770

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800 - 1,200 EUR

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painted, possibly by Carl Gottlob Albert, with a turkey, cockerel and hens in landscape with ruins nearby and a town in the distance, within an integral moulded gilt frame with rocaille scrolls at each corner, the reverse with aperture for suspension, traces of mark in blue to reverse


20.6 by 14.3 cm; 8 ⅛ by 5 ⅝ in

For a discussion of Fürstenberg plaques, see Manfred Meinz, 'Die Tableaus der Fürstenberger Porzellan-Manufaktur', Keramos, no. 162, October 1998, pp. 15-70. An example with European and exotic birds, attributed to Carl Gottlob Albert, is illustrated by Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich and Manfred Meinz, Die Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg: eine Kulturgeschichte im Spiegel des Fürstenberger Porzellans, Band II, Munich, 2004, p. 419, fig. 301.