Tiny but Glorious Early 20th C. Quimper Dish little owl 4 9/16" l x 3"

4 9/16" l x 3" w x 4" t

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

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

and a fold to cover at lower left corner

Tiny but Glorious Early 20th C. Quimper Dish little owl 4 9/16" l x 3"I'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