Narwhal, Manatee and Friends, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor pottery platter Images show each square labelled

Images show each square labelled with a letter

Overall: 8 5/8" t x 9 11/16" w x 6  3/4" d

or a or most any room of a sunny cottage

but I did recently find this and a couple of others by the same maker

and what I believe is a butterfly

Narwhal, Manatee and Friends, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor pottery platter Images show each square labelledI went back to my source in Germany to scoop up another handful of these gorgeous c. 1840s zoological watercolors, having sold the last several I had quickly. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, gorgeously executed ink and watercolor drawing, c. 1840s. Whether made in advance of, or after, an engraving for a zoological volume I am not certain whatever the case, quite marvelous and with the fine execution amplifying a sense of