Dutch Boy Smoking Pipe, Hand-drawn Watercolor Postcard, 1924 woman with baby typically wonderfully worn objects that

typically wonderfully worn objects that they are

I purchased this terrific handwoven rug from the estate sale of an artist and gallerist on Newbury Street in Boston who dealt in Haitian art primarily

It feels as much a sculptural object as a utilitarian one

The sides of the basket are finished with two large circular ash ring handles which are bound with ash splints

Dutch Boy Smoking Pipe, Hand-drawn Watercolor Postcard, 1924 woman with baby typically wonderfully worn objects thatI've come to understand that a Dutch boy in clogs was a common subject for hand drawn postcards in the first quarter of the 20th century, and was used as the basis for all sorts of playful variations. (I had another in the shop missing one sock, reading 'In Haste I am Yours'.) I love the pink cheeks and arched eyebrows on this (cheeky!) one, puffing on a very long pipe with trail of smoke behind presumably straight off the streets of Amsterdam! 3 1 2"