Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Menu Denmark with those big red ears

with those big red ears

or wherever

Barrel boxes: both 3" tall

but how can you beat the name on this one: C

nicely rounded arches to the cage and a very round ball inside

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Menu Denmark with those big red earsI'm drawn like a magnet to antique hand sewn toy balls like this; there's something about the piecework required to yield a (nearly) round ball that feels like quite a feat of construction to me, with the result like a three dimensional quilt. And the variety of browns (seems to me a combination of leathers and oil cloth) on this makes it seem as if in conversation with everything from old leather medicine balls to geometrical solids a perfect tactile