Porcelain Pheasant couple

Specie of ceramic produced from a fine clay, quartz, feldspar and kaolin paste. Originally from China, this white, translucent, resistant and extremely versatile material revolutionized its distribution in European markets along the Silk Road. Marco Polo coined the term “porcellana” from the Italian porcellini, nickname for the shells found in the Venice's water.

Table decoration in porcelain painted in shades of beige, brown and dark green, representing two pheasants. The birds are side by side, with their heads up and their tails down. One of them is on a pedestal, a kind of perch, also in porcelain, with an oval base. In The base can reads "Coimbra".