Fabulous Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and White Circus Horse vintage mixology I love how the design

I love how the design plays with optical perceptions: focusing on the light brown it reads as a series of repeating abstract geometrical patterns

7 1/2" tall x 3 5/8" in diameter

such that gravity forces the slider down to rest on top of the lower ball

In the interim

This piece came from the estate of Renate Scheer Kalkofen (1935-2013)

Fabulous Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and White Circus Horse vintage mixology I love how the designOf course I love the colorful birds here, parrots I guess, forming a sort of heart that makes this one seem especially fit for Valentine's Day. But it is the painting of the horse at the center of the wall box that really sold me on this definitely the improvisatory addition of whoever made this many years ago, and just so good I think. The wood is at least in part salvaged from old cigar boxes, as there is a label still visible on the interior of the