Perfect Old Green Painted Cricket Stool Caspar wood Executed in super saturated color

Executed in super saturated color on natural colored heavyweight paper

I can't help but to think of this Inuit carved soapstone Narwahl as a good luck talisman- like a unicorn

in art history classes

but certainly it is a lotus flower at bottom center

believe dates to the 18th century

Perfect Old Green Painted Cricket Stool Caspar wood Executed in super saturated colorI love anything in old green paint of this shade, which I think would be described as "bittersweet" and even more so when it shows some alligatoring, as this does. So to find it covering on a really terrific looking old stool with just the right form and proportions makes me super happy. To my eye a perfect thing. 11" w x 8 3 4" d x 8 3 4" t and in very good, perfectly aged condition, very sturdy and sound. Some paint loss to the top but long since