SOLD Beautiful, Unusual Antique Treen Powder Flask with Lovingly Carved Decoration antique needlepoint patch it's an old stair baluster

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

Naive in manner

these are quintessential examples of pottery made by the women of the Shipibo

with a nice variety of tool-like forms represented

SOLD Beautiful, Unusual Antique Treen Powder Flask with Lovingly Carved Decoration antique needlepoint patch it's an old stair balusterI watched this online for a couple of days before purchasing it but kept thinking about it in the interim, and I remain fairly obsessed with it now. A very elegant, graceful form, carved of very beautiful wood that looks like burl and is a rich honey color (detail photos of the wood give a sense), with very lovingly relief carving of a leafy vine along the top ridge, almost evoking a spine, which then branches to encircle the neck, as if wrapping