Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages mid-century portrait Having bought and sold a

Having bought and sold a fair number of brushes

but veering toward pure abstraction

"River People") and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) are renowned for coiled baskets like this one

very heavy

4 3/8" x 1 1/2" w x 1 1/2" t and I would guess as old as the model of car it portrays

Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages mid-century portrait Having bought and sold aFinding this one in an unexpected corner of a shop in southern Maine last week made me very happy. It is a small in scale accordion fold book (like a mini Froebel kindergarten album in that regard and the papers used for the paper cuts here have the exact quality the papers used for early kindergarten paper cuts and paper weavings!) It features 46 page faces of original Chinese paper cuts, called Jianzhi an ancient Chinese art form, first executed in