Frolicking Merpeople

During our last visit to the Art Institute we had lunch at the café and admired the mermaids in the courtyard that we could see from the window. I went out to get a closer look and a better view of their tails.

Looks like they are actually mermen since the bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Miles is called the Triton Fountain.

We returned home to find a surprise package from my Birmingham niece who is always on the outlook for mermaids for me. I opened the box to find a mermaid card from her latest (last?) trip to the Eric Carle Museum that announced an enclosed souvenir from a flea market that she bought on her recent trip to France.

Even though it depicts mermaids it  obviously belongs with our china cabinet collection!