Narwhal, Manatee and Friends, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor pottery platter and what I believe is

and what I believe is a butterfly

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

Images show each square labelled with a letter

or a or most any room of a sunny cottage

I presume is a signature of sorts--appearing also in other) but it has lead me nowhere

Narwhal, Manatee and Friends, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor pottery platter and what I believe isI 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