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The top latch on the front opens to reveal two interior trays (and an underside of the lid that is as ornately decorated as the exterior
referring to a person enlisted to guard the front entrance to a barracks and handle administrative matters in a unit
plus a funny little dome to fill an empty corner
What I love about this tiny painting is that it the village depicted immediately makes me think of an antique German Erzgebirge Christmas village
Man with Lost Eye, Pink Cheeks, Voluminous Coat, 19th C. Full Plate Tintype pottery basket The top latch on theStriking to see a young man with a lost eye uncovered by a patch, and the combination of it, together with his pinked cheeks and very oversized coat make him seem both deeply vulnerable but also somehow protected. (The very wide sleeves and extra long arms of that coat keep making me think of Joseph Beuys' felt suits.) To my eye there is also a sense of the surreal about it, with the fringe on the arm of the chair feeling of another (David Lynch ian)
