James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 wooden sewing box but am pretty certain it

but am pretty certain it is African

14 1/2" tall with handle

but with a different set up and configuration--and much more satisfying I think for the geometrical progression of the stacking order: i

typically commissioned by wealthy foreigners and engraved with their monograms

but overall looks great for her age and ready to fiercely guard whatever treasures one might store inside

James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 wooden sewing box but am pretty certain itJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed double profiles. While others are more abstract, this one seems to portray specific individuals, parenthetically described as chimney sweeps with the hand written quote on the back of the paper making one wonder whether the drawing portrays friends or lovers lost. "Fear no more the heat of the sun