Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 framed theorem painting 35ʺW × 8ʺD × 1

35ʺW × 8ʺD × 1

Long ago the exterior spine was recovered with a fabric strip

just place it on the desk to hold paper clips or assorted odds and ends

” This renowned Burmese lacquer-ware is made from a mixture of the juice of the Thitsi tree and ash

and in absence of a good surface to write on is really the perfect thing

Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 framed theorem painting 35ʺW × 8ʺD × 1A tender and heartfelt thing if I ever did see one. Surely it is Nellie Leora, mother to Gardner (I take that as a G), whose photograph is framed with wreath of braided threads at the center of chair back captured seated in a Victorian wicker chair, with book open in her hands, and very intense gaze! The rest of the chair seems all about Gardner, who embroidered the date on one side, 1914; her own age on the other, 24; and her name front and center,