A Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain ornithological tête-a-tête service, circa 1780

finely painted with landscape vignettes of poultry and other birds feeding or perched in tree branches, surrounded by scattered insects, within richly gilt rocaille-edged scale panels at the rims, the lower relief moulded panels with entwined leafy vines picked out in gilding, with enamelled flower knops, comprising:

a teapot and cover,

a coffeepot and cover,

a milk jug and cover,

a tea canister,

two cups and saucers,

and an oval two-handled tray

sceptre marks in underglaze-blue, painted numeral 1. in puce to all pieces except one saucer marked with letter A. in puce

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Width of tray 42.5 cm; 16 ¾ in