Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters still life which are super cheerful

which are super cheerful

burgundy-red flowers and nutlets that stick like nettles to clothing

3 3/4" wide x 2 7/8" deep x 1 5/8" tall

while her serious expression complicates the gesture of her raising the skirt corner of her dirndl (in the other direction) making one wonder whether she is flirting

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters still life which are super cheerfulThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and