Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut This lovely studio pottery vessel

This lovely studio pottery vessel makes a great small planter

not older than mid-20th c I am pretty sure

the wire holds the propeller tight to the mounting piece

I especially love his very pink cheeks

Three of the four I found with pretty sorry remnants of their former watercolor kits inside

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut This lovely studio pottery vesselI pass by most old magic lantern slides, but these are special c. 1880s or so I believe, French, and with all of the color hand painted. Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet!) and a "gourmand" tethered to a pillar to be held off from the table by a satyr who is about to feast! Many seem to relate to devilish behavior, with a portrait