Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) cat and mouse dexterity toy I believe it might be

I believe it might be chalk

9 1/8" x 5 1/2" x 1"

I've bought and sold a handful of old treen apples

a carved wooden spear

the vase is animated with expressionistically applied glazes of inky black and dark green

Spotted Dove(?): Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor, with Birds of Prey Notes on Reverse) cat and mouse dexterity toy I believe it might beThis 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