Infinity Box! ASW's 1892 Set of Five Handmade, Jointed Boxes, Very Precisely Nesting ceramic with painted beard and mustache

with painted beard and mustache

Her companion

who wrote his name many times all over it--and stamped it all over this particular page

photographed I'd imagine just after completion

I was drawn to the black against white graphicness of the hand-painted face on this

Infinity Box! ASW's 1892 Set of Five Handmade, Jointed Boxes, Very Precisely Nesting ceramic with painted beard and mustacheA great delight finding this one. There's rarely a closed box of this sort I don't shake to see if there might be something (like kindergarten blocks!) inside, which was wise in this case or I might never have known there were four more boxes, of perfectly graduated scales, housed within it. (With subtly graduated patinas to the wood, too, the smallest looking as though it had never seen the light of day since its construction in 1892! Signed ASW,