Wonderful OId Folk Art Ashray with Carved Recess for Pipe unusual portrait and then behind bars inside

and then behind bars inside the cage

wrist and around the edge of his back leg and a bit of a bending to the tin

As they should be

and I love the triangular orange pointing fingernail

with snail on its head

Wonderful OId Folk Art Ashray with Carved Recess for Pipe unusual portrait and then behind bars insideThe latest and I think greatest find reflecting my predilection for representations of pipes, which always feel Magritte ian to me, and Duchampian too. This wonderful thing I know from the seller was found in New England and obviously all carved from one piece of wood (hardwood, or possibly a tropical wood) and I believe likely dates to about 1900 or so. In addition to being wonderfully primitive, to me it speaks all about absence and also