This planter
or wanted to keep the design simple in order to be able to add some embroidered flowers and her monogram to the plain gold ground
Carved with a great sense of immediacy from radiant green soapstone
This guy seems to me kind and quite sensitive
with one gold square painted with a bird and flower
No It is Rotten Out, c. 1920s Ink Stamp and Graphite on 19th c. Ledger Paper lion lover This planterThis is one of five drawings on ledger paper I am listing, all found together, with some 19th c. writing on some of the pages, but the drawings (or in this case printed lettering) done a few decades later, I'm guessing 1920s or 30s, when a kid, or a couple of them, got a hold of the ledger. The phrase "No, it is rotten out" spelled out in hand stamped letters really makes this for me, but then I also like to think about handsome George, and wonder