Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) lap desk This is a fantastic Aldo

This is a fantastic Aldo Londi for Bitossi "Spagnolo" vase

and this is a beauty—as simple and honest as can be

especially for the straight-on view

with flip up blade at the ready to read the sun-- but this is only the second I've found

so relaxed

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) lap desk This is a fantastic AldoI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood