DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil bird with flowers someone disarmed him at some

someone disarmed him at some point long ago and seems to have given him pants to boot

Sight: 13 x 10 3/4

Jones used opaque paint to embellish his sculptures

I’d hang these vintage Japanese fans on the wall immediately to enjoy them as the gorgeous objects that they are all winter long—and to be reminded that summer will come again

the equivalent to "foo dogs" in Chinese culture) repeating around the perimeter of both top and bottom halves of the box

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil bird with flowers someone disarmed him at someSix months ago or so, I found the counterpoint stencil to this one GOLDEN ENGINE in the Hudson River Valley; this week I returned to the same shop and found DARK ENGINE waiting for me! As before, the dealer noted that this had come from a prominent area collection, from which I guess they are doling out one stencil at a time. Before I imagined that Golden Engine had been used to stencil the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, and