SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) whimsy goblet with some scattered toning and

with some scattered toning and spotting and a couple of water stains as documented

These sorts of refrigerator jugs/pitchers were designed with spatial economy in mind

though I am confident they are indeed Villeroy & Boch

He returned to the train in this later work

and a half-circle of black with a purple star inside for the nose

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) whimsy goblet with some scattered toning andThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger