Automatic translation from Danish.

Meissen: The plate from the 'Parrot Servicet'. Decorated in colors with Bolognese dog, which makes of a large macaw parrot sitting on a stick surrounded by insects. The fan is decorated with brown and gold foliage. Sword mark in blue, approx. 1740. Diam. 26 cm.
Stems from Director General Ole Olsen's collection no 2913.
The motif is believed to have been created on the basis of copper engravings made by the Dutchman Petrus Schenk, who was the first to be sent to Japan to obtain motifs.