A TOURNAI PORCELAIN ORNITHOLOGICAL OVAL CHARGER, gilt and painted in colours in the style of Jean-Christian Joseph Mayer after l'histoire naturelle by Buffon, with a central rooster and hen vignette surrounded by foliage, 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, 36 cm wide