Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle antique animal prints I also really like the

I also really like the rhyme between the lifted back leg of the Hermes/Mercury statue behind the occupant of this library/sitting room and the elevated foot of his crossed leg

) At the very end are a few pages of penmanship practice too

So much fun finding and spending some time with this one

Rank badges (also called rank insignia or Mandarin squares) were used in China during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties to demonstrate the wearer's rank

I found this antique  lovely in Lancaster County

Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle antique animal prints I also really like theA beautiful and also somewhat mysterious feeling thing, or group of things, which I just needed to bring home and be around for a bit. The wood is here is a hard wood, with a very smooth surface (if I were better at identifying woods I would!) Feels much more like a modernist sculpture than something made for a child, and with a tension about how the two positive forms relate to the cutouts in the rectangular block the end grain patterns tell us they