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 -  -  -  -  - | Antique Whale bone inlaid scrimshaw sewing basket c1860
Item # 4765
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Antique Whale bone inlaid scrimshaw sewing sewing basket c1860. A rare and important antique American scrimshaw oval sewing basket made of finely pierced whalebone lattice work circa 1860. This rare whalebone sewing basket has a wooden base with inlaid starts and ebony cross banding. The whalebone lattice work had pierce carved whole and cut out ends. The condition is good but there is some damage that should be mentioned. There is some loss to the ivory banding the goes around the top of the basket,one lattice piece is missing two inches of its top and one of the ebony bands in the base is missing. The basket measures 10 inches across and six inches high. The base wood measures 7and one quarter inches across.
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 -  -  -  -  -  - | Maria Bonomi Modern Art triptych woodcut print Brazil 1963
Item # 4985
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Maria Bonomi Modern Art woodcut triptych print Brazil 1963. Maria Bonomi was born in Meina Italy to a Brazilian mother and Italian father. She moved from Italy to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1953. See Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era by Steve Shipp page 94 or New Brazilian Art by P. M. Bardi page 151 for more information on the artist. All three woodcuts are signed by the artist and marked 1 2 and 3 7 out of 10. The whole triptych its original gold leaf frame measures 53 inches by 24 and one half inches. Each of the three prints is on wonderful hand made paper and measure 17 by 23 inches. To learn more about this artist go to http://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2003/fev/03/126.htm also see http://mujweb.cz/Kultura/Grapheion/13-00a.htm There are three fundamental vectors in Maria Bonomi's route: her respect for the craft, the craftsmanship in the technique of woodcut, and her public works. She has turned the technique of woodcut into a paradigm and re-covered it with themes that seemed so distant: the lyical vision of the planted fields, the horizons, the proteic form capable of unfolding in multiple forms and meanings endless cicles... These shapes repeat and multiply themselves in many and various ways but each time they find a new, actual identity. Maria Bonomi explains: "I always do the same thing, and it is always different."Maria Bonomi,
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