Antique Bird Plates

An important collection of hand colored plates by Beverly Robinson Morris. From British game birds and wildfowl.

Set of six late 19th-early 20th century circa 1884-1929 English Copeland Spode red Chelsea bird pattern porcelain dinner plates with printed and impressed marks.

Hand Painted Porcelain Plates with Chelsea Bird Design

This amazing set consist of 12 plates and 3 comports, a total of 15 pieces. All handpainted in the Aesthetic Movement style with butterflies, dragonflies, birds, bees, insects, flowe...

A nice American silver plated novelty napkin ring with nicely modelled bird standing on branch with napkin holder on a chain around its' neck, circa 1900.

Of silver shape with lobed and gilt dentil edge; the well with a landscape of exotic birds enameled in a brilliant palette all on a festoon of dense green-black foliage, the rim with...

A fabulous dessert plate, molded with swirling leaves highlighted with blue and gilt; the centre with a fabulous bird and insects.  

Rare English delft pancake plate, London c. 1750. Naively hand painted to the centre, in polychrome enamels of underglaze blue, manganese, green and iron red, with an amusingly overs...

A Minton dessert service circa 1910, the plates decorated with humming birds and parrots perched on branches and flowers reserved on a white background.

Wedgwood octagonal Aesthetic Movement plate, the japanesque moulded border with puce borders, gilt outer rim and turquoise ground, the centre printed with puce exotic birds.

The plate is decorated with a deep cobalt blue ground, elegant gilding and beautifully hand painted "fancy birds" in a style that had been popular since the 18th Century.

Set of 3 bird ashtrays in silver or pewter metal, very cute and very well made. They are from the beginning of the century.

Unique flower pot with singing bird automaton made by Bontems in the last quarter of the 19th century. Bontems was a manufacturer of bird automatons in Paris. He produced decent num...

Very rare singing bird cage in the shape of a ‘jardinière’ A masterpiece by Bontems, manufactured in Paris around 1870. This type of bird automaton is extremely rare - few were made...

Circa 1880's Simpson, Hall & Miller Co. silver plate serving tray. Aesthetic movement engraved design with birds and grapes.

Very beautiful and rare clock with bird automaton. Made by Bontems at the end of 19th century in Paris. This French pendulum clock runs for 8 days, strikes the half hour and full ho...

John Gould is the 19th century artist responsible for the longest series of hand-colored bird illustrations in recorded history. During a span of more than 50 years, he and five Asso...

Rectangular silver guilded case with rounded corners. The oval lid has an enamel painting on the exterior of a mountain view and on the interior brightly enamelled with flower bouqu...

Very rare singing bird box by Jacques Bruguier, made in Geneva circa 1850. When activated, the lid opens and a finely crafted bird rises from a beautifully pierced and engraved grill...

An attractive wall clock from Germany or central Europe, circa 1880's, having an enameled dial which is set into an embossed face plate. A game bird is picked out in black and sits a...

Rectangular silver guilded case with rounded corners. The oval lid has an enamel painting on the exterior of a mountain view and on the interior brightly enamelled with flower bouqu...

The majority of the plates - 318 of them - depict birds, leaving the remaining 44 plates to illustrate various animals, fish, and insect.

Art Nouveau plate, fine cut, Bohemia, Austria, gilded, set of four plates, bird pattern, good condition.

Nowadays the species is known as Coracina fimbrata.[2] The male of the bird is depicted in plate 249. Although Huet must have made hundreds of watercolours of birds for the project, ...

Davenport stone China meat platter with drain plate. "Flying Bird" pattern.

Third quarter of the 20th century Signed to rim: Franco Lapini / Made in Italy The silver-plated hammered bowl resting on a gold plated bird's outstretched wings over a nest of lea...

Note is made of a similar design in the Ralph Wark collection, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida. Gillmeister p 64 plate, circa 1740 where the flying bird is of si...

The plates are decorated with a lattice patterned border, and landscape interior scenes with birds, pagodas and bridge design.

A set of 12 porcelain plates, Famille vert decoration Depicting various shaped cartouches of; figures in interiors, flora and birds.

The design and natural arrangement of the birds on the plates was due to the genius of John Gould, and a Gould plate has a distinctive beauty and quality.

The top plate has motifs of birds and flowers, the bottom plate is decorated with a floral motif.

(Nissen, Die Illustrierten Vogelbuch, 853) Issued in nineteen parts over thirteen years, the book consisted of 89 plates of land birds and 129 plates of water birds by William Lizar...

Rosewood and marquetry inlaid overmantel framed mirror with split columns, inlaid birds and foliage, original plate and gilding, circa 1840.

Gould published many works on birds and mammals, one of which was A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Humming Birds with 360 beautiful plates, among them a number of the plates in our ...

Gould published many works on birds and mammals, one of which was A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Humming Birds with 360 beautiful plates, among them a number of the plates in our ...

The birds most importantly have no damage , each pair of lovebirds are framed by mother of pearl swags The wardrobe does not have hanging space , it is shelved with 3 shelves , T...

Johann Michael Seligmann (1720�1762) was a German artist and engraver best known for his ornithological artwork in Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel (Collecti...

Johann Michael Seligmann (1720�1762) was a German artist and engraver best known for his ornithological artwork in Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel (Collecti...

Johann Michael Seligmann (1720�1762) was a German artist and engraver best known for his ornithological artwork in Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel (Collecti...

Johann Michael Seligmann (1720�1762) was a German artist and engraver best known for his ornithological artwork in Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel (Collecti...

During a span of more than 50 years, he and five Associated Artists published more than 3000 large folio plates of birds from many parts of the world they were published in more than...

John JAMES AUDUBON (American, 1785–1851) Three-Toed Woodpecker. Plate CX from Birds of America. Hand-colored engraving and aquatint . 1832.

John Woodhouse, using a style modeled on his father’s, was primarily responsible for the plates produced after 1846. The small quadrupeds were published in octavo form just as the bi...

John Woodhouse, using a style modeled on his father’s, was primarily responsible for the plates produced after 1846. The small quadrupeds were published in octavo form just as the bi...

John Woodhouse, using a style modeled on his father’s, was primarily responsible for the plates produced after 1846. The small quadrupeds were published in octavo form just as the bi...

John Woodhouse, using a style modeled on his father’s, was primarily responsible for the plates produced after 1846. The small quadrupeds were published in octavo form just as the bi...

John Woodhouse, using a style modeled on his father’s, was primarily responsible for the plates produced after 1846. The small quadrupeds were published in octavo form just as the bi...

This 19th century Japanese Meiji period pottery Imari charger, painted with a central dragon flanked by panels depicting figures and exotic birds with gilded highlights. The plate me...

Both are beautifully carved in the Rococo design, fine foliate carving throughout, cascading water over rocks, all carrying a naturalistic design and headed with Ho Ho birds. English...

Lemaire and Florent Prevost, first publ. 1836. On our plates bird and other species are combined with plants and appear to be designed for decorative rather than ornithological purpo...

Lemaire and Florent Prevost, first publ. 1836. On our plates bird and other species are combined with plants and appear to be designed for decorative rather than ornithological purpo...

Lemaire and Florent Prevost, first publ. 1836. On our plates bird and other species are combined with plants and appear to be designed for decorative rather than ornithological purpo...

Lemaire and Florent Prevost, first publ. 1836. On our plates bird and other species are combined with plants and appear to be designed for decorative rather than ornithological purpo...