Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts painted antique basket makes for interesting reading (if

makes for interesting reading (if also discouraging

it's just loaded with character and warmth

though it appears to have been a pretty contemporary one--though Lucy's version takes some license (in the placement of the label for Nigretia

and which used to be blue

there is a bit of irregularity to the glaze with a few tiny white dots around her feet which I believe are original to the piece

Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts painted antique basket makes for interesting reading (ifNot an easy one to photograph as it stands almost 2 feet tall, but quite a wonderful, and definitely unusual, whimsy, unlike any I've seen. With a square base (it stands on its own) and tapering to a round bulb at top, it features four "cages" of sorts: one with with a squarish "ball", one with a "+" inside that slides up and down, and two with carved parts that extend well outside the cages, one straight across, the other in all four directions.