Ostrich in pink flowers on blue Morels the original is held by

the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2016

the circular hole forms the waist

with its white fibres over a solid base

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overlaid with Japanese tissue and accented with silver

Ostrich in pink flowers on blue Morels the original is held byThis ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on land and in