Hand-painted Antique Wooden Souvenir from Skansen, Stockholm, 1898 puppet show Handmade in Portugal

Handmade in Portugal

irregular rim on the kitchen island or at the center of the dinner table filled with calla lilies

with its terrific orange and dark blue banded Art Deco style decoration against green body

With its graceful form and gorgeous hand-painted surface treatment

beautifully exemplified in this frog

Hand-painted Antique Wooden Souvenir from Skansen, Stockholm, 1898 puppet show Handmade in PortugalI vividly remember visiting Skansenan open air museum and zoo in Stockholm dedicated to showing the traditional Swedish way of life prior to industrializationon a cold and rainy day fall day several years ago, largely for the purpose of visiting their wonderful gift shop, where I loaded up on quintessentially Swedish gifts to bring home to friends and family. It thus felt rather serendipitous to find this Skansen souvenir (minne, in Swedish, which