Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags woman with mirror perhaps packed with emergency supplies

perhaps packed with emergency supplies

I purchased this gorgeous 1920s watercolor based on an online image

but its no wonder she's the subject of much romanticism and many many images

But even if quite the opposite

Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags woman with mirror perhaps packed with emergency suppliesA satisfyingly visceral primitively carved old folk art whimsy, with these two large, fat balls barely contained by the cage. What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags, Spark Plug and Uncle Sam, which date it to right about 1900. (And if there were ever a tobacco tag that seemed just right for a whimsy, spark plug seems it to me!) I also love the that the "bars" of the cage are not perfectly