Bertuch "Nais Serpentina" Late 18th C Hand-colored Copper Engraving Staff of Aesculapius Perhaps it has to do

Perhaps it has to do with being a child of the 1970s

it seems that it might be pyrography

which I would keep on the counter to flip when needing to make a simple choice or determine who has to unload the dishwasher or take out the trash or whatever (the higher roll winning

and exposed clay on the interior and bottom

And so he will forever stand

Bertuch "Nais Serpentina" Late 18th C Hand-colored Copper Engraving Staff of Aesculapius Perhaps it has to doThis c. 1798 engraving comes from a volume published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch, (1747 1822) famous German publisher, patron of the arts and all around super interesting character worth a quick (or long!) search. Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch printed the "Bilderbuch fr Kinder", appearing in 12 volumes, and including color engravings of all manner of living things, and some mythic ones, too! These I think are renderings of pre or just hatched snakes