Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages carved wooden comb this very fine Northwest Coast

this very fine Northwest Coast Salish tightly coiled lidded basket dates I believe from the late 19th or early 20th century

Painting: 9 7/8 x 11 1/2

and then this truly perfect crooked line of a smile

a view of the Penobscot River and the "Quarry Meadows" but also a game of football

Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages carved wooden comb this very fine Northwest CoastFinding 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