Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle theorem painted box to which were then applied

to which were then applied black and creamy white paint

which led me to learn that images of babies spilling and dropping things (usually in tears) seems to have been a bit of a thing in the early years of the 20th century

and in what I believe is its original frame

There is one hairline crack just to the surface near the lip and an old

mid 19th century or perhaps a bit earlier I believe

Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle theorem painted box to which were then appliedA beautiful and also somewhat mysterious feeling thing, or group of things, which I just needed to bring home and be around for a bit. The wood is here is a hard wood, with a very smooth surface (if I were better at identifying woods I would!) Feels much more like a modernist sculpture than something made for a child, and with a tension about how the two positive forms relate to the cutouts in the rectangular block the end grain patterns tell us they