Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle theorem painted box and in what I believe

and in what I believe is its original frame

I do believe that at least a few birds once made this old handmade birdhouse a home

11 3/8 l x 6 3/8” t x 1” d

An excellent addition to a collection of 19th century educational/drawing instruction materials

There is one hairline crack just to the surface near the lip and an old

Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle theorem painted box and in what I believeA beautiful and also somewhat mysterious feeling thing, or group of things, which I just needed to bring home and be around for a bit. The wood is here is a hard wood, with a very smooth surface (if I were better at identifying woods I would!) Feels much more like a modernist sculpture than something made for a child, and with a tension about how the two positive forms relate to the cutouts in the rectangular block the end grain patterns tell us they