Super Primitive Antique Parcheesi Make Do Game Board large ship in a bottle hand-painted porcelain

hand-painted porcelain

and it is fairly hard not to want to gently hoot when you have it on

and with the weight balanced squarely on her on her shoulders she serves as quite a sturdy handle for carrying the load

surface wear as evident

Clearly I've got words and language on my brain this week--plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine--so here's this lovely

Super Primitive Antique Parcheesi Make Do Game Board large ship in a bottle hand-painted porcelainOf course old wooden game boards with gorgeous colorful paint are wonderful, but I love the primitiveness and immediacy of this one, with the nothing more than necessary parcheesi board cross scratched into its surface with a sense of urgency, as if its maker was needing to play at that very moment and so carved out the board as expeditiously as possible. The effect really feels rather holy to me. Stains and light scratches all over the surface