Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face Band Aid tin and with a hundred plots

and with a hundred plots in motion (I keep thinking of the matriarch on Peaky Blinders

18" across open

which provided guides for the carver

Though I don't follow the sport or know enough to identify the other boxer here

but wonders never cease

Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face Band Aid tin and with a hundred plotsOne of my favorite July Brimfield finds, from a dealer who always has wonderful and unusual things. (I also bought a ship in a "bottle" with the bottle actually a hollowed out lightbulb.) Quite a delicately carved nude, and I really love the ambiguity of it I believe she is actually meant to be lying down, as if her head resting on a pillow (and with her right breast pulled by gravity in that direction, but then I think the carver was quite attached