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  Mimi Waterbottle

  £7.95 £3.97 Buy Mimi is a Rothschild Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi), discovered in Bali in 1911 by avian expert Dr Erwin Stresemann. He named it after his friend, the naturalist Walter Rothschild, who founded his own museum of natural history at Tring, which is still open to the public. Rothschild Mynahs are critically endangered (there are more giant pandas in the wild), but conservation projects, like the one run at Waddesdon Aviary, help to preserve this rare and beautiful bird.
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  Sèvres Floral Plate

  £6.95 Buy Waddesdon holds a renowned collection of Sèvres porcelain including a 235 piece dinner and dessert service, ordered by Marie-Antoinette in 1781 and “bleu celeste”, specially designed for Louis XV. Baron Edmond de Rothschild commissioned watercolours of designs for Sèvres dinner service plates in the 1880s from Madam Zeppenfeld. She copied the plate designs from an album preserved in the Sèvres archives, dating from the 1780's.
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  Sèvres Swirl Saucer Melamine Plate

  £6.95 Buy Waddesdon holds a renowned collection of Sèvres porcelain including a 235 piece dinner and dessert service, ordered by Marie-Antoinette in 1781 and “bleu celeste”, specially designed for Louis XV. Baron Edmond de Rothschild commissioned watercolours of designs for Sèvres dinner service plates in the 1880s from Madam Zeppenfeld. She copied the plate designs from an album preserved in the Sèvres archives, dating from the 1780's.
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  Portrait Melamine Plate Gainsborough

  £5.00 Buy Thomas Gainsborough used characteristically brilliant brushwork in this portrait of Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas, painted in 1783-1784 and included in his first private exhibition. Little is known about the sitter.
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  Portrait Melamine Plate Nattier

  £5.00 Buy Portraits of real people as gods, goddesses or personifications of Seasons or Virtues were common in the 18th century. The French artist Jean-Marc Nattier painted this unknown woman as a River Goddess in around 1738.