Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf lighthouse and turned

and turned

which in this case is as it should be

This set of three gorgeous Cinnabar-colored Burmese lacquer betel boxes makes me want to find appropriately lovely and unexpected little things to store inside

Clearly someone else was pretty pleased with it too

framed size 10

Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf lighthouse and turnedI haven't totally figured out why the image of a Dutch boy in this basic pose was so popular in the earlyish 20th century, but I've had several postcards in the shop featuring the same basic figure, and then here he was again on this cutout. What I really love about each, though, are the specific details and adaptations applied by the maker this one, bundled up in scarf and hat and with hands buried in pockets, I have to think was made sometime in the