Plate; "Le Heron", 1970

Item — Box: CFC Tableware Box 6

Identifier: CFC2019.0383.1.3

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1970

Extent

1 Plates : Multicolored 5½" design from a fable of La Fontaine. Apparently from a series of six. The designs are marked on each plate with © Images d'Épinal Pellerin. Imprinted on the back are "Exclusivité Porcelaine de Sologne," "Made in France," and the number "3." ; 6 3/8 inches in diameter

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Le Heron There is less happening on this colorful plate than in some others. The attention all goes to the central figure. Two things strike me about him. First, the artist does a fine job of fusing animal and human. What great legs, for example, for a human heron! Secondly, we get a good sense of this creature's fastidiousness as he looks into the water without actually fishing.