Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) vintage painters palette ) as a very gracious

) as a very gracious gift

Plus a number of Mews

Plus pops of watercolor here and there amid what are often pretty densely packed pages

and I'd bet painted of a village not far from here

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Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) vintage painters palette ) as a very graciousThis! One of two leopards today, which alone mean it was a good week. And quite a singular thing this one, made of a piece of root wood, lending it this wonderfully snaking and twisting body. Something appears to have gnawed a bit at its snout at some point, resulting in some loss and roughness there, and the end of one leg shows a little loss too but what remains is so good and so full of life I don't much care! Terrific old paint, black spots