Amazing Japanese Mingei Folded Paper Snake with Glass Bead Eyes boys with horse but I quite like the

but I quite like the succinctness of this basket

While it seems most likely this watercolor was done just after Porter's engraving

The floral wreath around the head of the seated girl

Cubes 1 1/16” cubed

Amazing Japanese Mingei Folded Paper Snake with Glass Bead Eyes boys with horse but I quite like theWhat a lot of careful folding went into the creation of this very wonderful paper snake, Japanese (Mingei essentially means 'folk art' in Japanese) and dating to the early 20th century I believe. I've only found one other of these out there, near identical in manner though somewhat larger than this one, sold via 1st Dibs; that one was housed in its original wooden crate, with hand painted paper label, which helped in the dating of this one. It appears