Tiny but Glorious Early 20th C. Quimper Dish little owl and a fold to cover

and a fold to cover at lower left corner

They were resident first at Ebenezer

having lost the toe of one shoe over what I’d think is 125 years at least

which features an image by Utagawa Hiroshige of people on a bridge with mountains in the background

I really like how closely cropped the the image is--just barely containing the snake and amplifying a sense of immediate danger

Tiny but Glorious Early 20th C. Quimper Dish little owl and a fold to coverI've never gotten hugely excited about Quimper pottery tin glazed hand painted French faience manufactured in Quimper, a town in Brittany but I've completely fallen in love with the tiny dish. Just a perfect, gloriously colorful, completely joyful thing. The right size for laying one tea bag, or a setting a diamond ring before one goes out to work in the garden. The hand painted mark on the underside dates it 1904 22. 2 7 8 d x 1 2 t and in good