Old Folk Art Bottle Whimsy with Crucifixion Scene red orange yellow Staining along the bottom edge

Staining along the bottom edge and scattered

which could be used for serving all sorts of things

and hard to beat the obelisk as a great geometric sculptural form

I believe this lovely little wooden box/frame would have been carried in a pocket

and the sheaf of wheat below tied with a ribbon that runs just to the very edge of the picture frame

Old Folk Art Bottle Whimsy with Crucifixion Scene red orange yellow Staining along the bottom edgeNot for everyone, surely, but I found this super folky bottle whimsy crucifixion scene pretty hard to resist. Here we have Jesus on the tallest cross and the two thieves who were crucified beside him, and then, I would guess, Mary and St. John standing in front dressed in black for mourning she looking very disturbed but he, oddly smiling. Visible from the back side are the assembled props a ladder, a hammer, and what looks to be a giant matchstick