Beautiful Early Set of 81 Color Cubes in Original Box with Custom Lid miniature painting in daguerreotype frame Plus this yellow

Plus this yellow

it seems to me both about the materiality and constructed/illusory nature of painting itself and also about the subject himself

I had to remove from frame to photograph due to too much glare

and I think just wonderful

and think the folky combination of shapes and patterns on these is great

Beautiful Early Set of 81 Color Cubes in Original Box with Custom Lid miniature painting in daguerreotype frame Plus this yellowAs I always say, I will never tire of these; each time I find a beautiful old box of them I fall in love all over again. This is a luxuriously large early set, made by the Embossing Co. (Albany, NY), 81 blocks in their original wooden box bottom, and with a custom made wood and cardboard lid to boot. (The original cardboard lid is still here too, split in half but handy for all of the suggestion designs the underside provides.) With the most beautiful