1940's Alfred Meakin Audubon Bird Plates - Set of Two - John James Audubon Birds of America Luncheon Plates egg carrier photographer or historian not for

photographer or historian not for its plantation setting which was both glorious and terrible

- Impatiens-style flowers

catch a tear in it or simply carry it for adornment

It is not dated as far as specific year of manufacture so all that we know for certain right now is that it was made prior to the closing of the pottery in 1951

lots of stories can be imagined about this handsome helper and all the people and places it has encountered over the past 40 years

1940's Alfred Meakin Audubon Bird Plates - Set of Two - John James Audubon Birds of America Luncheon Plates egg carrier photographer or historian not for"A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod. Learned and ignorant alike we are astonished at the spectacle. Imagine a landscape wholly American, trees, flowers, grass, even the colors of the sky and the waters, quickened with a life that is real, peculiar, trans Atlantic. On twigs, branches, bits of shore, copied by the brush with the strictest fidelity, sport the feathered races of the New World,