Charming Old Folk Art Tabletop Chest With Great Lines (Missing Some Drawers, Who Cares?) lead house and Vassar College Museum

and Vassar College Museum

or so these were used to decorate around Christmas nativity scenes

” and “Chinese Funereal Statuettes

it's also great holding nothing at all

Charming Old Folk Art Tabletop Chest With Great Lines (Missing Some Drawers, Who Cares?) lead house and Vassar College MuseumI love this thing, perhaps even more so for the fact of having two of its drawers missing, which has the effect of amplifying the satisfying grid like lines of its form. (And equally good with no drawers at all, just a useful, nicely tiered tabletop pedestal!) In its original cream paint , and with a reverse that's quite satisfying too. The two drawers can also fit stacked in the middle niche. 10 1 2 l x 6 1 2 d x 7 1 2 t, sturdy and sound, earlyish