Large 30cm First Period Worcester Porcelain Fancy Birds Dessert Dish c.1770-1775

A stunning large Worcester porcelain dessert serving dish with lobed walls and shaped rim with an osier moulded border. Painted in the centre an extravagant scene centred on four Sevres style "fancy birds" coloured in puce, sky blue, orange and lemon yellow / lime green enamels. One is perched in a tree and the other three stand in a very finely painted stylised green land with a city landscape in the distance of buildings and a cathedral, greyed out trees and flocks of birds up in the sky. The lower edge of this fantasy scene is decorated with hanging flowering garlands and the lower walls are dotted with butterflies and more fancy birds in flight. Finished with a gilt dentil rim. Unmarked, c.1770-1775.