Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs handmade pattern lid closes flush

lid closes flush

or storing odds and ends

called Yosegi in Japan

They have lost their original box

In addition to the progression of (heavily rouged

Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs handmade pattern lid closes flushPhotos do no real justice to this one between the mustard paint and graphicness of the grain painting, it delivers a terrific visual punch. The thickness of the top, combined with the very curvaceous forms of the legs make it feel almost like something else entirely too I keep thinking of the classically inspired deconstructionist postmodern architecture of Charles Moore, say, but also somehow of de Chirico paintings, and also Cubist collages.