SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) whimsy goblet with the handles folding out

with the handles folding out and then out again

invoking everything from the November elections and their potential implications to (hopefully not for) the apocalypse itself

These sorts of refrigerator jugs/pitchers were designed with spatial economy in mind

who came to Worpswede (a municipality in the district of Osterholz

produced by Mann

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) whimsy goblet with the handles folding outThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger