The Perfect Little Blue Painted Miniature Wooden Stand butts This drawing (along with several

This drawing (along with several others I've had int he shop) came from a sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta from the 1930s or so

purse-lipped expressions on their faces

the pattern here looks to me like it might have been made with the end of an old skeleton key but I'm not sure

part of what really makes it is the layering and overlapping of forms and colors

one assumes the bottles and the labels are a hundred years old or so

The Perfect Little Blue Painted Miniature Wooden Stand butts This drawing (along with severalThis is just a little thing 2 1 4 inches tall but if there were ever the perfect little stand for displaying tiny little things, I think this would be it. The blue paint has little green and a little gray in it, just right, and there is just something super satisfying about its form and proportions and those rounded corners. 2 1 4" t x 3 1 4" w x 1 1 2" d. Very good condition, great patina, very light in weight but structurally sound and sturdy on its