SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface pencil and watercolor with a bit of darkening/staining

with a bit of darkening/staining around the lip and on the rim of the underside

One sees a fair number of old hand-painted (tole

I had to double check with an eraser that these hands were drawn in pencil rather than printed

I am not sure if the two figures at right at actually gods or just acting like them

published by Reinhold Publishing Co

SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface pencil and watercolor with a bit of darkening/stainingNo way could I resist the surface on this one. It's a child scale table, with the three boards on top I might guess cut down from something else with the paint already on them. whatever the case, the salmon colored squares against black field really do it for me! (It seems the salmon paint stain came first, with the squares masked out and the black paint applied.) The legs of the table were hand carved, tapering toward the ends, with one leaning in a