Silver Painted, Pin Prick Decorated, Carved Folk Art Pin Cushion Shoe Burmese box Stone shows beautiful wear across

Stone shows beautiful wear across its front and back surface and is in excellent condition--and could be put to use again

moved it to a single store location in Boston

dark red painted boots now is quite perfect

with the ink dark

part of what really makes it is the visceral effect of layered and overlapping of forms and colors

Silver Painted, Pin Prick Decorated, Carved Folk Art Pin Cushion Shoe Burmese box Stone shows beautiful wear acrossSo many shoe shaped things in the world to love, and I'm a sucker for pin prick type decoration circling a toe! It's a curious one, feeling to me one part Victorian and one part Texas, between the silver and those stars adhered to the wide pink ribbon on either side. (And really, it seems quite an apt companion to the Marie Antoinette watercolor I'm listing next!) 5" l x 1 5 8" w x 3 1 2" t. Good condition, with a nice patina of use and wear, ribbons