Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata banded incising There is a bit of

There is a bit of rippling of

the  exterior sides still show some of its original naturally dyed bright pink color--which is intensely vivid around the lip

I love how this tiny carved woman stands in what is almost the classical Venus Pudica position

sides raise to 4 7/8" tall

The hinges are in good shape

Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata banded incising There is a bit ofI have a vague notion that this drawing may have been done by Swedish artist Beata Mrtensson (1880 1956), who was best known as the first female artist at Gustavsberg porcelain factory, 19081910, where she designed bowls, vases and tableware. She then moved to Paris and later lived in New York, which is when in my theory would guess she did this, before returning to Sweden in 1953. The signature is close to the one Mrtensson used she to sign her