Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish Jacquer Poirer and it looks as great

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

just really striking

green and blue

I'm becoming quite enamored of old wooden toys

I’ve since learned that a hydrometer is used for measuring the relative density of liquids based on buoyancy: you pour liquid into a container

Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish Jacquer Poirer and it looks as greatThis 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.