The bowl measures 4 1/4" in diameter at widest and 2 1/2" tall
The balance still works great to point up
What I find especially intruiging about it are the cartoonish pyrograph designs
but are always opposite from one another
made I think quite some time ago with lots of love
Couple Playing Chess, 19th Century Framed Needlepoint on Linen naive art The bowl measures 4 1/4"From what I can tell, it is the woman that has the upper hand in the chess match, and I'd like to think that the slight tilt to the table here, slanting down toward her partner, was an intentional decision to reinforce the fact that she is indeed winning! I'm far from a needlepoint expert, but haven't seen many done in a single color like this, treating the figures like silhouettes, and I love the sort of improvisatory feel of it, with some of the