Charming Nail Art Swingset with Two Animals! Qajar tile New Mexico

New Mexico

I'd guess it dates from the first half of the 20th century

I really love the delicate frame atop the frame

and then these wonderful hand-painted marching red birds in great dark red

framed with light green paper

Charming Nail Art Swingset with Two Animals! Qajar tile New MexicoI've seen plenty of nail art skiers and the like, but never a tiny swingset, or abstracted animals like this, all done with a precision and elegance that I find really lovely while also, in a curious way, seeming to honor the integrity of the nails themselves. I feel like this might integrate fairly nicely into Calder's circus, and rather transcends its folk nature to feel like a tiny modernist sculpture. Swingset measures 3 1 16" w x 2 3 4" t. "Horse