Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs red and tan They come in what I

They come in what I would guess is their original slide top box

happily attached to a great black painted wooden post with gold painted pointy finial

These cheerful blue enamel kitchen canisters with wooden lids were produced by Valenti

it couldn't be better

(And a great preliminary sketch on the reverse side

Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs red and tan They come in what IThe shape of this old carved wood buoy does it for me, with the sway of the form making with think of a human figure, back arched and belly protruding. What makes it really beautiful to me, though, is the surface patina, particularly how the white paint shows a rainbow of scuffs and stains accumulated through banging up against other things. Like a 3 dimensional painting that might happily live next to a Frank Stella or Richard Tuttle, and I'd treat