Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 small fan These porcelain lidded canisters or

These porcelain lidded canisters or boxes by Jack Lenor Larsen for Dansk

Though done as a mock-graphic for the U

and indeed have learned they are pretty rare--and this set all the rarer for being double nines rather than double sixes--and all 55 of them are here

This lovely art nouveau style free hand “hearts and vines” iridescent glass vessel reminds me of the miraculous capacities of blown glass—what a tiny wonder

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 small fan These porcelain lidded canisters orI've gone back to the same dealer in Russia three times now to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles; I just think he was a really good landscape painter, and Russian prices are pretty good! This impressionistic oil on cardboard may be my favorite yet really a little gem of a painting, and I could look at that sunlit tree against painterly clouds and radiant blue sky all day. I might guess this was was painted along the