Double Panel Finely Made Vintage Kuna Mola with Figures in Helicopter antique treenware The visible design remains as

The visible design remains as a window into the vast reticulate intricacy of the universe

pages 122-131 (the second part of a play by Rabindranath Tagore and translated by Andre Gide titled “Amal et la letter du Roi”) and three plates accompanying the story on Chinese funeral statues

are both signed I-J

with a circle of fine lines around it for emphasis

This dark green painted bentwood box features finely rendered flying gold-painted cranes or herons amid curling lines evocative of clouds or water

Double Panel Finely Made Vintage Kuna Mola with Figures in Helicopter antique treenware The visible design remains asThis is one of the most wonderful Kuna Mola I have seen picked from among a large collection of them from an artist and gallerist who dealt in them. I believe the form is of a helicopter spinning propeller at top, and wheels below with windows through which we glimpse these wonderful seated, hatted figures two in profile on the left panel, three face front on the right and then that little standing one (preparing to jump?), with all over embroidery