Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure guache on paper with beautiful jointed corners

with beautiful jointed corners

9 3/4" tall with handle

with a little roughness to the wood and a few tiny cracks in the bowl and on the upper neck of the dark--no real matter

The zig zag design on both interior and exterior is striking

This sweet thing

Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure guache on paper with beautiful jointed cornersThis is a fairly small piece just shy of 6 inches in. diameter but what a lot of is packed into those inches, and what a marvelously strange thing! I really love things that are both intensely of their medium and also entirely transcend it, which I feel is the case with this piece, applying a great command of the craft to articulating a very singular vision. The figure to me has a bit of the feel of Adam in the Garden of Eden, falling from grace, or