Friday, 9 October 2026

Eighteenth-century dish with Jean de La Fontaine's fable of the crow and the fox

Painted dish with a blue pattern: in the centre a fox looks up at a crow on a branch, with bird medallions around the rim.

A dish of the eighteenth century. Only this is not the crow and the fox, and Krylov has nothing to do with it: these are Master Raven and Master Fox of Jean de La Fontaine

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