SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) terra cotta planter To me it has sort

To me it has sort of a Magritte-ian feel to it

walls perhaps painted a deep burgundy and hung with dozens of antique dog portraits in gilded frames

so can stand taller or squatter depending

And then a pasted down 1887 calendar

It was quite finely carved of the mineral sepiolite

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) terra cotta planter To me it has sortThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger