Porcelain figure of a thrush with brown and gray plumage and a brown-speckled white breast perched on a low tree stump heightened in green and yellow and applied with a small branch and yellow florette with green leaves.

Figure of a Male Thrush

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

1745-1750

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