Church-like (and Transcendent) Old Painted Folk Art Box with Ball in Cage Whimsy Topper in Sea Foam Green handmade wood house Surely a haunted object

Surely a haunted object

eager to imbibe whatever is poured into it

and I think these carvings due full justice to their delicacy and elegance and light on their feet precision

anticipation of future travels

Church-like (and Transcendent) Old Painted Folk Art Box with Ball in Cage Whimsy Topper in Sea Foam Green handmade wood house Surely a haunted objectThis is one of my very favorite Brimfield finds; to my eye a perfect thing, including for how the combination of simple box and pointy ball in cage whimsy renders it, in just about the most concise, minimalist manner possible, a piece of tabletop architecture: a church with a steeple. I'm forever on the hunt for old painted whimsies, hard to find and as good as can be here in sea foam green with dark red ball inside but how much better attached to a