Looking Out, Charming c. 1880s Mother of Pearl Seashell Folk Art Carving hippie embroidery 16 5/8 x 13

embroidery 16 5/8 x 13 5/8 (I have not opened it up

located at at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan

in this case with a really pretty fantastic energy invested in the extended and enlarged hand of our man with the sword

two full layers deep

with some use to the watercolor blocks as pictured

Looking Out, Charming c. 1880s Mother of Pearl Seashell Folk Art Carving hippie embroidery 16 5/8 x 13I'm sure I've seen them on occasion, but I'd never really looked at a folk art mother of pearl shell carving of this sort before and really what an amazing thing, all done by hand, quite a feat of labor and patience! Perhaps not surprisingly, fisherman were the most common subjects depicted on these, typically shown holding a net and facing away from the sea (toward the viewer), as if coming to shore in at the end of the day. But this much better this