Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms wicker covered flask This is an original pen

This is an original pen and black ink drawing by William Charles Palmer (signed and dated 1940 right above "Cephalopoda") executed on rice paper

who took his inspiration from a woman creating a Grenfell Mission rug

I believe these date to the mid-to-late 19th century

Late 19th or very early 20th century and drawn on the reverse of a postcard-sized Parisian abeublements (furniture) shop

Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms wicker covered flask This is an original penOne of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)