Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish Jacquer Poirer green and blue

green and blue

I'm becoming quite enamored of old wooden toys

each featuring a couple--one by the sea

and it looks as great from the sides and underside as it does straight on

And then there is the red hand-stitched string holding it together

Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish Jacquer Poirer green and blueThis beautiful small pottery plate with two spiraling fish is a bit of a mystery. At the center of the back is incised FREGATTEN which means frigate, or ship, in multiple Scandinavian languages as well as German, I believe. I have found some plates, including a few produced by Royal Copenhagen, on which this word appearsand I understand that in Denmark it is generally used to refer to the Fregatten Jylland, one of the world's largest wooden warships.