Kid Made Crayon & Watercolor Drawing with Branches and Butterfly by Laura Smiley boxers This really lovely West German

This really lovely West German mid-century vase I believe was made by Steuler

fall leaves or pinecones

and as if it might be ancient

The lid features a seam of three nails at the overlap and 4 large and 2 small nails around the perimeter

Kid Made Crayon & Watercolor Drawing with Branches and Butterfly by Laura Smiley boxers This really lovely West GermanI found this drawing painting at the estate sale of the late NYC Wellesley, MA artist Lois Gross Smiley, and am pretty certain it was made by her daughter, Laura, when she was a kid. (She initiated it LS at the upper right, and perhaps it was her teacher who wrote Laura at bottom left.) In any case, it reminds me of the wonders of wax resist, achieved here with crayon, painted over with what I think is watercolor, in this terrific green. I just love