French Menu Template with anthropomorphized tableware.
[France: circa 1900]. A lithographed menu template (20 x 10.5 cm) with hand color, designed by noted French engraver Charles-Emile Carlège. The unused menu template depicts a simple table setting with all the accessories-candlesticks, oil and vinegar, saltcellar, coffee grinder, and more - all anthropomorphized. I expect the dish to run away with the spoon at any moment. Signed by the artist in the lithograph, in the hem of the.....