Adding a Hawk and a Heron
Last year two more Sceaux faience plates with bird decoration by Duvivier (1a, 2a) were auctioned in Paris(i), and both would have belonged to a service already featured in a previous blogpost (“Identifying Duvivier’s birds on two Sceaux faience plates” from May 24, 2017). The first two plates (shown again in 3a below) illustrated a different technique of rendering vegetation in a much more fluid style, which we see Duvivier has used here as well. Added to the swan and a stylized peahen on the first two examples, we find two more species: a European Buzzard Hawk and, most likely, a Grey Heron, both standing on rocks.