Fabulous Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and White Circus Horse mill Some wear and paint loss

Some wear and paint loss as evident

Both made very similar baskets

This definitely shows age and wear

legs spread

What a pair

Fabulous Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and White Circus Horse mill Some wear and paint lossOf course I love the colorful birds here, parrots I guess, forming a sort of heart that makes this one seem especially fit for Valentine's Day. But it is the painting of the horse at the center of the wall box that really sold me on this definitely the improvisatory addition of whoever made this many years ago, and just so good I think. The wood is at least in part salvaged from old cigar boxes, as there is a label still visible on the interior of the