and it appears that there were probably once more wooden crosses in the windows--now just appearing in the front right window
I do know that these small watercolors on heavyweight handmade paper are Tibetan Tsakli
I find it a wonderful mix of warm and tender and humble and proud--and of course I read all sorts of things into that face (looks a bit as if she's holding a secret to me
I take this guy for a boxer in his red shorts with green waist band and brown gloved hands—and one can dance him around like a butterfly from the dowel in his back
but surely this bowl was once a basket--there is a one remaining piece of the handle on the interior of one side
Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator and it appears that thereA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various
