This John James Audubon painting of a Frigate Pelican, Plate 271 from his Birds of America, has been decoupaged onto an antique German dessert plate with original brown luster. 

6” x .5” x 6”

Birds of America was printed between 1827 and 1838 and there are four Pelicans counted among the 436 life-sized watercolors of North American birds. This decoupaged plate is the fourth of four, one of each of Audubon’s pelicans. 

Courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.