A TOURNAI PORCELAIN ORNITHOLOGICAL CIRCULAR DISH, gilt and painted in colours in the style of Jean-Christian Joseph Mayer after l'histoire naturelle by Buffon, with a central birds vignette surrounded with trees, the obliquely shaped border (à bord chantourné) reserved with four blue flowerbunches within rocaille cartouches, the edge shaped, marked with blue crossed swords and a dot, circa 1775, troisième période, 24 cm diam.