Mark Catesby Botantical Plate - The Cardinal - American Preservation Guild for Gorham Fine China circa 1976-1978 grey and pink Was it a Homer Laughlin

Was it a Homer Laughlin ancestor

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Mark Catesby Botantical Plate - The Cardinal - American Preservation Guild for Gorham Fine China circa 1976-1978 grey and pink Was it a Homer Laughlinwith unbelievably lifelike coloring, presented the rarest trees, plants, animals, birds, fishes it is difficult to believe that it is not the real thing that stands in its natural colour on the paper. Pehr Kahm, 1748 on the art of Mark Catesby {HISTORY} From the portfolio of the famed British naturalist, Mark Catesby (1683 1749) comes this beautiful painting of a red bird captured while sitting on a hickory tree. Now referred to as The Cardinal, this