Fabulous Very Old Noah's Ark with Six Wonderful Creatures embossing co color cubes and perhaps simultaneously use the

and perhaps simultaneously use the bowl as a holder for a handful of paperclips

There are two fine tears to the surface of the painting at lower right (running from bottom right edge and lower right edge)

There is one little hairline crack on one planter that runs from the lip down about a third of the way on one planter

I found it filled with old hardware

and I'd think either put to work annually for many years

Fabulous Very Old Noah's Ark with Six Wonderful Creatures embossing co color cubes and perhaps simultaneously use theOh goodness, this is an old one, with one half of the ark's roof open and only six animals in the flock, but what fantastic ones they, and it, are! I'm more or less certain the set is 19th century German, and while I'm eyeing these old Noah's arks all the time I've never seen one a set with animals as good as these, made of three carved layers of wood, joined together with irregularly spaced, beautifully bleeding hand forged nails, and individually