SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box zoological and perhaps inspiration for some

and perhaps inspiration for some sort of party game

as clearly this drawing expresses a great sense of pride in the fruits of her labor

it reminds me somehow of Plains Indian ledger drawings and shields: just stunning

Altogether just right

with arrows tipped in what look like hearts held in one talon

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box zoological and perhaps inspiration for someIt is only recently that I began to pay attention to straw work, also called straw marquetry, but I've become deeply enamored with it. Boxes of this sort are most often described as Napoleonic prisoner of war work, made in England in prisoner of war camps and prison ships, late 18th earlier 19th century, though they draw on centuries prior Far Eastern and European traditions, and continued to be made later. Not unlike tramp art a century later, they