Phases of Venus Antique Color Lithograph from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Solid Stem Center Augur Bits so am not quite sure

so am not quite sure of the age of this piece

Jane Saunders in Oneonta

with its gold leafed wood body and bronze head and feet

I love them as a pair and would use them as vases or perhaps as storage vessels for chopsticks or wooden spoons or whatnot

and the little bird delivers your smoke in its little beak

Phases of Venus Antique Color Lithograph from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Solid Stem Center Augur Bits so am not quite sureI've been stalking antique prints book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late, which I find super beautiful. This one portrays the phases of Venus as observed between 1833 and 1836 by astronomists Wilhelm Wolff Beer (Prussian) and Johann Heinrich Mdler (German). It is an antique book page from a volume of Zeitschrift fr populre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy) published by Lith Anst, Graz, c. 1868. Some light staining to the paper