Worcester's fabulous birds. (porcelain bird decorations at the Worcester factory in Worcester, England, in the 18th-century)

The Magazine Antiques | September 1, 1997| | Copyright

Porcelain decorators have imagined the most curious menageries through the centuries, including the painters at the Worcester factory in Worcester, England, who created feathered creatures as legendary as the Jabberwocky and as splendid as the proudest peacock. Cataloguing an important private collection in Saint Louis, Missouri, presented me with the opportunity to study a veritable aviary of Worcester's finest birds, all exotic and full of charm and humor.(1)

When Jeanne and Milton Zorensky began collecting porcelain in 1970 they soon realized that the only way to ...

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