From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger fish sculpture and an unglazed area around

and an unglazed area around it making it feel as if its slithering through the sand

I really love the lush unglaze blue decoration on this old porcelain Japanese Sake bottle or Tokkuri -- super loose and gestural

seemingly untouched since then

Overall 11 1/4" x 7 1/2"

From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger fish sculpture and an unglazed area aroundThere are few things that give me as much pleasure as opening a notebook that I can tell from the paper cover has about 200 years on it in this case the cover a pretty soft blue, and the notebook kept by a William Gimler, spanning the period 1834 to 1852. Gimler was clearly a farmer and here tracks, sporadically it seems, bushels of oats and wheat and corn sold, as well as pork butchered, including noting the weight of Joseph Figley's hog (163 pounds)