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porcelain figurines
This design is based on an American dinner or evening dress from 1831-1835
Pearly cream Japanese paper stands in for satin
made from dyed
It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s
Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple bestiary porcelain figurinesYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch
