Early Door with Six Panes and View of Winter Trees, Very Painterly Antique RPPC 1929 art 8 7/8" t x 3

8 7/8" t x 3 1/2" w x 3 1/8" d and in very good condition

who it gives me pleasure to imagine drawing all his favorite players

dry wood patina to the pine

including nicely carved rounds at the corners and intensively textured (stippled) surfaces on the chip carved pieces

Early Door with Six Panes and View of Winter Trees, Very Painterly Antique RPPC 1929 art 8 7/8" t x 3Such a painterly photograph, I'm obsessed with it. A bit underexposed, the photo itself feels soft and dreamy, which makes the door threshold feel ethereal, and so all the more metaphorical of passage from one place, or one world, to another. And then formal qualities of this very old door itself a wonderful overall play of geometries, and with the photograph also capturing with clarity each knob in the wood, each nail on the horizontal braces running