New Favorite Stool in Red Paint with Field of Iron Nails Underneath hands Wonderfully graphic from a distance

Wonderfully graphic from a distance and beautifully detailed from a'near

Some pages at the front are long since missing

though maybe with a bit of a Degas dancer aspect to her spread arms too

a documenter of Canadian folk and outsider art

This gorgeous box is a fine example of Yosegi-zaiku

New Favorite Stool in Red Paint with Field of Iron Nails Underneath hands Wonderfully graphic from a distanceSo much love for this one, which I found at what is quite a good antiques show in Lititz, PA and which I think slipped under the radar (bought from a dealer focused on other things, who had it on the floor in an inconspicuous spot); as I carried it out, I had several people comment in envy! Wonderfully irregular long and low form with rounded corners, fantastic wear to the red paint, and then this terrific, inexplicable surprise of hundreds of old