Creighton University

The design here is taken from a French match box.  I am not sure that expanding so small an image makes for a defined image on a large object like this, but the king stork and his victim are all too clear!

There is something strange about almost every member of this unusual set of pillow covers.  Almost each cover illustrates characters from standard Aesop’s fables, but few get the relationship of the characters right.  The fox sits in the midst of grapes here while the fable has him unable and even trying in vain to get them.  The fable has the cheese in the crow's beak, and the fox cleverly gets the crow to sing.  Here they share cheese or -- perhaps in a deliberate parody -- the fox offers the crow a piece of cheese!  Further, what is the fox doing with rooster's claws rather than fox's paws?