Stunning, Sculptural Old Folk Art Barbed Wire Basket wooden flower including this great painterly use

including this great painterly use of gray for outlining and shading the belly

and the "tail" arching from its hind to its base

I don't know much about this wooden jewelry box

Graphite and crayon/colored pencil on paper

10" t x 4 5/8" w x 1/2"

Stunning, Sculptural Old Folk Art Barbed Wire Basket wooden flower including this great painterly useMy favorite find of the week and since finding a large, wound barbed wire ball a month or so ago, which I might have sold 20 times over, I've had a keen eye out for old barbed wire, though I never expected a beautifully crafted basket to land in my proverbial lap! For me, this is about both its emphatic materiality, and its transcendence an uncanny thing, more a sculpture than a functional object, though it is quite a sturdy basket should one wish to