Thick Antique Chip Carved, Gold Painted Tramp Art Cross old handmade cloth doll No mallets included

No mallets included

P Kuchlar and is addressed to an Otto Kuchler

making it perfect for serving—I am picturing it right now filled with pasta primavera

) I believe this particular basket may have been made by Marjorie Abbey Battise

Frame is in excellent shape and wired for hanging

Thick Antique Chip Carved, Gold Painted Tramp Art Cross old handmade cloth doll No mallets includedIf ever there were a tramp art cross that seemed to express unwavering faith, I think it's this so thickly stacked and solid it feels quite invincible. And indeed its the form that I really love about it, with all of those chip carved layers creating a really wonderful geometry, and when laid on its side it looks almost like a piece of architecture. Old, nicely mellowed gold paint, I believe original to it, with some traces of an aqua blue on top that