Pair of Birds, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing contemporary pottery Wear and repair to box

Wear and repair to box as evident

I really love the crude immediacy of this graphite drawn cross against the brown linen of the cover

Overall wear

6 7/8" t x 6 1/2" l x 1 3/8" d

The layers of pink and cream cut paper under the glass lid remind me of antique school girl valentines and paper dolls and woven hearts

Pair of Birds, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing contemporary pottery Wear and repair to boxA couple of more wonderfully colorful naive antique drawings today, including this one, that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings salvaged from the notebook indicate that it was quite a masterpiece! Happily we have a few, and they fill me at