Marvelous Large Early Tiger in Landscape Theorem Painting carved stacking toy features leaves/grasses on the top

features leaves/grasses on the top and one side

Approx 5" t x 5 1/2" widest d

I have not being able to figure out who made it

The other looks to be taking a rest from his labor

There are reproduction decks of these out there but these are the originals

Marvelous Large Early Tiger in Landscape Theorem Painting carved stacking toy features leaves/grasses on the topThis amazing theorem painting is impossible to photograph due to the thick glass, but it is really fantastic and I've tired! (The second photo, shot at an angle, is the closest color wise.) It is quite an early one, c. 1810 20s or so I believe, and quite a different beast than the theorem still lives of fruits and flowers that were much more common! This tiger in his domain is a much rarer subject, and its treatment looks to me to include freehand