Church-like (and Transcendent) Old Painted Folk Art Box with Ball in Cage Whimsy Topper in Sea Foam Green umbrella building a major collection

building a major collection

Sold as a set of six

a bit of loss to the paint on the back side and a couple of small spots on the front visible if viewed from a certain angle

which I find super evocative and a bit haunting too

Church-like (and Transcendent) Old Painted Folk Art Box with Ball in Cage Whimsy Topper in Sea Foam Green umbrella building a major collectionThis is one of my very favorite Brimfield finds; to my eye a perfect thing, including for how the combination of simple box and pointy ball in cage whimsy renders it, in just about the most concise, minimalist manner possible, a piece of tabletop architecture: a church with a steeple. I'm forever on the hunt for old painted whimsies, hard to find and as good as can be here in sea foam green with dark red ball inside but how much better attached to a