Royal Crown Derby Paperweight. Playful Otter. Gold Stopper. Box

  

Royal Crown Derby Playful Otter. Please contact me via my listing if there's anything you'd like to discuss.

This 15.5cms high piece is decorated in lushest shades of browns, russet, red, and a creamy white front liberally adorned with 22-carat gold gilding. This piece depicts the Eurasian or Hairy- nosed otter.

The base, decorated with water lillies, tells us this particular otter is to be found in the Bosherton Lily Pond, Pembrokeshire. Its back has beautiful swathes of several layers of fur to keep it waterproof and is also decorated with five leaf clovers. The otter's spiritual significance is playfulness, joy, good fortune and adaptability as the otter is frequently seen playing on slides or with stones whilst encompassing dedication to family (otters mate for life, keep young with them for at least a year and will hold paws with their "spouse" whilst sleeping on their backs). The otter is grasping a perch, many of which are found in Bosherton. Created in 2008 originally for Connaught House.