Lush Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Urn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame two men very sturdy and sound and

very sturdy and sound and stands steadily on its own

I think of this as a perfect everyday vase to keep on the kitchen counter

a pottery founded shortly after the state of Israel was formed post WWII in 1949

and a pronounced vertical warp visible on the exterior

These I am fairly certain are British

Lush Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Urn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame two men very sturdy and sound andOccasionally I'll see a Victorian dried flower composition with a cut paper element, but I don't believe I've ever seen a sea moss picture like this before, with that black paper urn evoking a theorem painting stencil as well as a cut paper silhouette portrait, and I think locating it c. 1850s or so. I love sea moss pressings of all sorts (including for the fact that sea moss gathering represented an acceptable way for young women to get out in nature