Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette footed planter though almost seems like leather

though almost seems like leather

Rather an unusual one as far as I have found

festive feeling hand-painted redware plate feels like just the one to serve snacks on to accompany a pitcher of them

2 3/4 x 4 1/2 and in good condition

that most venerated of Christian relics

Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette footed planter though almost seems like leatherI find these old homemade cloth balls just the loveliest things. Usually, one finds them sewn together of pieces of oil cloth, most often in two alternating colors. But here, the cloth is more like linen, and the color more as if hand dyed, soft and radiant. And a most as beautiful a combination of three shades as could be. Perhaps the yellow, with shows a bit of a different texture, once had an oil cloth sort of surface that long ago wore away;