an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. they were items designed to

they were items  designed to be seen

One of the great figures of 20th century art

the artist would only use a little poetic freedom when it came to the flags and pennants which are nearly always flying perfectly in a direction contrary to the wind

each quadrant containing a stylised plant

The steam engine was used in situations where speed was critical or wind was absent

an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. they were items designed toan antique embossed brass dish from old calabar depicting the tortoise named " all of you " the main charecter in the allegorical tale from igbo folklore " the tortoise and the birds " dating from around 1910 350mm diameter. (the dish has a couple of small stress fractures on the tortoise shell.) "The Tortoise and the Birds" is a folktale where the cunning but greedy tortoise tricks the birds into giving him feathers to fly to a feast in the sky.