SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface scale model folded one by one around

folded one by one around bits of cardboard arranged in strata

1860s or so I believe

dots on the tops

12 5/8" l x 6 1/2" d x 7 1/2" t and in very very good condition

Handmade in Portugal

SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface scale model folded one by one aroundNo way could I resist the surface on this one. It's a child scale table, with the three boards on top I might guess cut down from something else with the paint already on them. whatever the case, the salmon colored squares against black field really do it for me! (It seems the salmon paint stain came first, with the squares masked out and the black paint applied.) The legs of the table were hand carved, tapering toward the ends, with one leaning in a