Infinity Box! ASW's 1892 Set of Five Handmade, Jointed Boxes, Very Precisely Nesting ceramic seems not to be this

seems not to be this fancified boy but rather the bird perched on his finger--though it seems quite likely there's satire at play here

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

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

Her companion

and very much for the combination of the two in one object: a sort of Native American basket/tramp art box hybrid

Infinity Box! ASW's 1892 Set of Five Handmade, Jointed Boxes, Very Precisely Nesting ceramic seems not to be thisA 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,