Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages carved wooden comb Both sound and stable

Both sound and stable

Purchased at the Rhinebeck Antiques show from one of my favorite dealers--how could I ever resist these beauties and the charming white creature whose back they're perched upon

plot lines

a view of the Penobscot River and the "Quarry Meadows" but also a game of football

and then this truly perfect crooked line of a smile

Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages carved wooden comb Both sound and stableFinding this one in an unexpected corner of a shop in southern Maine last week made me very happy. It is a small in scale accordion fold book (like a mini Froebel kindergarten album in that regard and the papers used for the paper cuts here have the exact quality the papers used for early kindergarten paper cuts and paper weavings!) It features 46 page faces of original Chinese paper cuts, called Jianzhi an ancient Chinese art form, first executed in