White Painted Old Make Do Wooden Car with Can Lid Wheels carved wood foot with no missing pieces at

with no missing pieces at all

This is the smaller of two lovely Burmese bamboo lacquer betel boxes currently in the shop

And then those little flowers everywhere

I've found a very close match of this lovely small lacquer string holder that describes it (with some authority) as English Victorian-era Chinoiserie

White Painted Old Make Do Wooden Car with Can Lid Wheels carved wood foot with no missing pieces atThis thing is old, dirty and dinged up, but for me it brings the form of modernist sculpture to pure make do construction. The wheels are metal can lids and they wobble a bit, but they do roll. Simple as can be but pure resourcefulness and to my eye really great. 18 1 8" l x 4 3 4" t x 2 1 2" w.