Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) lap desk This is a fantastic Aldo

This is a fantastic Aldo Londi for Bitossi "Spagnolo" vase

Great looking on the desk or side table or wherever

so relaxed

perhaps just tossed into the air by the man at the top of the ladder

and iconic feeling in its spare concision: AMERICAN PRODUCE

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) lap desk This is a fantastic AldoI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood