Porcelain Figurine of a Young Girl Reading Aesop's Fables, 1980

Item — Box: CFC Statues and Figurines Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0065.1

Staff Only

Porcelain figurine of a young girl reading Aesop's Fables to a dog and a bird

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

1980

Extent

6" Linear Feet ; 4.5" x 6" x 2.5"

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$4.99 from Linda Seminatore, Hudson, NH, through Ebay, Oct., '01.

Appraisal

Is this an imitation Hummel figurine? There is no apostrophe in "Aesops" here, as is sometimes the case with real books. A fence connects the girl and the animals. The tail of the bird is broken off. The animals seem to sit still for the stories.