Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) pottery cooking pot for tobacco or a table-scale

for tobacco or a table-scale snuff box

Sold in the frame I found it is

which I personally love

with tilted cross atop this lookout platform seeming to me either to forbode a coming disaster or to mourn one having recently occurred

Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) pottery cooking pot for tobacco or a table-scaleI'd never seen one of these before but do always have an eye out for a beautiful and unusual brush and what a great looking thing this one. It is a grain painting brush, also called a "pencil overgrainer" as one might imagine, this would allow the furniture painter to create five parallel lines in a single stroke, simulating the look of wood grain lines. And a little research shows that these were made in different sizes this one marked 3. Wood