Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies spillekins or so these were used

or so these were used to decorate around Christmas nativity scenes

and not at all detracting

fairly minor

While there is not a lot written about Lapid Pottery Works

The 1903 deck

Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies spillekins or so these were usedThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawingone of four watercolors I purchased from a German seller, which appear all done by the same person, likely c. 1800. Photos do no justice to the real thing. I would guess they were the original drawings after which engravings were then made for a volume on animal life. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and their amazing