Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette footed planter than any contemporary fan I've

than any contemporary fan I've got

have to think our man in black top hat was a magician

though almost seems like leather

This vase is as much a great sculptural object as it is a functional vessel

and the color more as if hand-dyed

Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette footed planter than any contemporary fan I'veI find these old homemade cloth balls just the loveliest things. Usually, one finds them sewn together of pieces of oil cloth, most often in two alternating colors. But here, the cloth is more like linen, and the color more as if hand dyed, soft and radiant. And a most as beautiful a combination of three shades as could be. Perhaps the yellow, with shows a bit of a different texture, once had an oil cloth sort of surface that long ago wore away;