Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box decoration but so much better for

but so much better for being perfectly preserved in the clay body of a utilitarian vessel

with a warm and substantial presence

round headed steel nails for eyes on the angular head

labor intensive execution

German Erzgebirge hand-painted houses—these four especially special for all being doubles

Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box decoration but so much better forThere is a specific type of antique geometric pin cushion pin keep, constructed of card board with a different piece of colorful silk on each facet (see photos for one example not the best but you get a sense), that is very close kin to this box; the construction, and the feel, is just the same. I'm fairly obsessed with those, but have never seen one like this, and it feels like a special present of a little sewing box to me. Very modern feeling, too,