Tiny but Glorious Early 20th C. Quimper Dish little owl carving itself 1 1/16" w

carving itself 1 1/16" w

produced by the United States Playing Card Company (est

and a fold to cover at lower left corner

which is not very good but gives a sense of what active workers these two are

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

Tiny but Glorious Early 20th C. Quimper Dish little owl carving itself 1 1/16" wI'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