James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 platypus bowl with just a couple of

with just a couple of loose/broken pieces of grass at the very outside edge

plus a key hole on the front--though there is no longer a key

There are many good bud vases out there

Scarab jewelry became very popular during the Egyptian revival in the 19th century

James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 platypus bowl with just a couple ofI feel both full of love and full of the idea of love every time I look at this drawing. The way those fingers knit over our man's chest, just below that fabulous bowtie and in between the floating shirt buttons what a perfect distillation of the feel of a heart a'flutter in springtime! The 1955 drawing is an early work by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), executed in ink (black, which reads more as dark brown now, and red for stripes on the bowtie).