Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard

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$750 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where paint spread; trace of glue along seam; later pencil notes to verso. Large fragment of an

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