SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) terra cotta planter I love this woman for

I love this woman for the opium pipe in her hands

walls perhaps painted a deep burgundy and hung with dozens of antique dog portraits in gilded frames

and on the opposite is a nude Adam in a similar reclining pose

perhaps in lieu of a dinner bell

To me it has sort of a Magritte-ian feel to it

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) terra cotta planter I love this woman forThese 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