Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star Paris sketchbook It's the pair of birds

It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm

and for their construction

which appears to have been enhanced with graphite

with light scratches and scuffs all over and one straight vertical hairline crack in one piece of inlay (as pictured)

Take your watch off

Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star Paris sketchbook It's the pair of birdsI found this one at the Rhinebeck show last weekend and thought it fantastically beautiful like the sort of 19th c. geometric watercolors or ink drawings I am always hoping for but rarely finding, and all the better for being stitched together of lushly colored, carefully cut pieces of velvet. And the flip side is as good as the front in a different sort of way, showing the backing as sewn together of pieces of what I believe is sack cloth, some