Wonderful Checkerboard Pattern Inlay Wooden Frame lidded copper box found in the Arctic waters

found in the Arctic waters around Greenland

none of these detract

it certainly has some age

This piece was created at  Lapid Pottery Works in Tel Aviv

Unsigned/unmarked

Wonderful Checkerboard Pattern Inlay Wooden Frame lidded copper box found in the Arctic watersPhotos don't do justice to this terrific old frame, which is totally radiant, and pretty much vibrates with a sense of the love and care and that went into its making. I really really love pattern intensive handmade things like this, which embody both the great aspirations of their maker and the impossibility of exactitude when doing things by hand. Along these lines, I think this is the sort of frame that could make for some really wonderful formal