Pillow Covers from China · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: Pillow Covers from China
Description: 2022? Twelve pillow covers illustrating a variety of fable characters. 18” x 18”. Made in China. $7.50 each through Joshua Jacobovitz, Jan., ’25.

There is something strange about almost every member of this unusual set of pillow covers. Almost each cover illustrates characters from standard Aesop’s fables, but few get the relationship of the characters right. The fox sits in the midst of grapes here while the fable has him unable and even trying in vain to get them. The fable has the cheese in the crow's beak, and the fox cleverly gets the crow to sing. Here they share cheese or -- perhaps in a deliberate parody -- the fox offers the crow a piece of cheese! Further, what is the fox doing with rooster's claws rather than fox's paws?
Date: 2022?
Source: $7.50 each through Joshua Jacobovitz, Jan., ’25.
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