Clay Red Bananas! schoolgirl map but makes it a bit

but makes it a bit challenging to photograph as the color casts a glow under light--trust that it is sharper and crisper looking in person

It feels 100% mid-century Danish to me (like a super painterly version of Inge-Lise Koefoed's pieces for Royal Copenhagen's Tenera line) but even with a magnifier I can't quite read to very faint marks on the underside

It also feels rather as if those stacked sides were made to create a sort of protective armor around the coins stored inside

Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans (now associated with Tulane)—which if you are not familiar with

the brass on the interior

Clay Red Bananas! schoolgirl map but makes it a bitI believe these red bananas are likely Central of South American in origin where red bananas are grown, and where as I understand it the juice of them is considered an aphrodesiac! These do have quite a sexy sort of fecundity about them, I'd say, and they seem to me to make a pretty fabulous tabletop sculpture or component of a dramatic centerpiece. I'd guess mid century or so, maybe a little earlier, and pretty excellent from every angle. 10" x 6 3