120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample wall-hanging 98 FANCIES ON A TEA-CUP"

98 FANCIES ON A TEA-CUP" and goes on to ponder imagery on imported Chinese porcelain ("I love to pore upon old china—and to speculate

M measures 11 3/4" wide

and what better creatures to stare out for hours than owls and hawks

perhaps a charicature of Decker himself

homemade version

120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample wall-hanging 98 FANCIES ON A TEA-CUP"I swooned when I found this one, at an antiques shop in Columbia PA, and can't find documentation of another like it out there anywhere. It was produced by Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co., NYC, an early American dye company, started by the German immigrant Adolf Kuttroff to commercialize chemical dyes from the French firm A. Poirrier. In 1876, the company became the American seller of the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (BASF) chemical company. (In 1925, it