Bertuch "Nais Serpentina" Late 18th C Hand-colored Copper Engraving Staff of Aesculapius all of which pack up

all of which pack up to fit perfectly inside

And so he will forever stand

and exposed clay on the interior and bottom

which I would keep on the counter to flip when needing to make a simple choice or determine who has to unload the dishwasher or take out the trash or whatever (the higher roll winning

and signed on the bottom "Dybdahl Denmark

Bertuch "Nais Serpentina" Late 18th C Hand-colored Copper Engraving Staff of Aesculapius all of which pack upThis c. 1798 engraving comes from a volume published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch, (1747 1822) famous German publisher, patron of the arts and all around super interesting character worth a quick (or long!) search. Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch printed the "Bilderbuch fr Kinder", appearing in 12 volumes, and including color engravings of all manner of living things, and some mythic ones, too! These I think are renderings of pre or just hatched snakes