Modular Tower of Balls in Cages with Bulb On Top, Architectural Old Carved Whimsy ceramic trinket dishes with some shrinkage splitting visible

with some shrinkage splitting visible on the underside

10 3/4" x 8 7/8" framed

And of course I love the self-reflexivity of that--a daguerreotype photo of a woman holding a daguerreotype

Him: 6 1/4 x 5 1/2" in frame

representing a Spanish colonial in the dance of the Christians and Moors

Modular Tower of Balls in Cages with Bulb On Top, Architectural Old Carved Whimsy ceramic trinket dishes with some shrinkage splitting visibleThis is one of three old carved wooden whimsies I purchased together from a dealer in New Hampshire, all listed today, and I think quite likely all done by the same person. Among my favorite sorts of whimsies are ones I would describe as architectural this one like a tall and narrow tower, standing tall on its own, with very satisfying modular stack of four balls in four cages, making a vertical grid. And the, a final almost ball as finial at top,