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Illustrated and discussed by Paul Crane, Nature, porcelain and Enlightenment: George Edwards and the Chelsea porcelain birds, ECC Trans, Vol.8, 2017, p.48-49. The image of the owl is copied from George Edwards, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Vol.2, pl.61 (1747). Edwards states he knew of two preserved examples of the owl, one belonging to Sir Hans Sloane. The addition of the two other birds to the composition is reminiscent of the 'mobbing birds' style inspired by Meissen and subsequently copied at Worcester a few years later.