Winsome Antique Cabinet Card with Hand-tinted Flowers tabletop game If Joseph Beuys and Judith

If Joseph Beuys and Judith Scott were to collaborate

filled with drawings of people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things

While they bear some resemblance in manner to antique German Erzgebirge animals

with the cherries a reference to his cherry tree

for display rather than playing with for sure

Winsome Antique Cabinet Card with Hand-tinted Flowers tabletop game If Joseph Beuys and JudithSuch a winsome feeling one; whether wedding flowers or mourning flowers I do not know, but I sure love the slightly frayed ribbon that holds them together, with their thorny cut stems splayed below it. And the pale pink and pale yellow hand tinting has the effect of seeming as if longing to revivify them but instead casting them further into the past. Formally and associatively quite a delicate feeling thing. 6 1 2" x 4 1 4" and in good condition,