This is the first in a series of inventories called “Tres bien ensembles” featuring items that, well, “go together well,” in this case ceramic birds. Most of these are mid-century Japan, including one marked “Made in Occupied Japan” (see earlier post) and one unmarked vase that is probably Japanese and looks Deco.

This lusterware piece looks Deco but is unmarked. I bought it somewhere in North Georgia.

Mama bird feeding baby bird (back left) is marked “Made in Occupied Japan”

The plate is English and I found the parrots in Williams, Arizona on our Route 66 trip

This wan fellow is marked “Brazil”

Talk about “fowl play.” I love how the two birds (left, center) are talking about the third, which leans in to overhear.