Stripes Obscuring Letters, Antique Cutout Watercolor Zebra on Penmanship Practice Scrap snowy day I've found antique Chinese and

I've found antique Chinese and Japanese erotic porcelain figures of a similar nature out there

and I really love the warmth and folkiness of this one

whose childhood ambition was to become a horse jockey

I happened to come across this

) Surely inspiration and/or material for all sorts of creative endeavors

Stripes Obscuring Letters, Antique Cutout Watercolor Zebra on Penmanship Practice Scrap snowy day I've found antique Chinese andI've had some other old animals cut from scrap paper of this sort, but none so large or with watercolored stripes! Quite a charmer of a zebra I think, who also looks a lot like a donkey, and with penmanship practice repeated letters showing through the stripes and also covering the reverse side. 9" l x 7 1 2" t. Watercolor on card weight paper. Very good condition, c. 1900 I believe, found in Pennsylvania.