SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) hand-painted slides With fantastic craquelure to the

With fantastic craquelure to the varnished surface

including for how the combination of simple box and pointy ball in cage whimsy renders it

and banded bark on the tree

very small

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) hand-painted slides With fantastic craquelure to theThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger