Super Bright and Graphic c. 1930-40s Tumbling Blocks Doll Quilt dome lid and over-the-top within

and over-the-top within

So when I spotted this and one other of her prints at an antiques shop

and there is a dealer at a shop I frequent in New Hampshire who seems to have come into a whole collection of them and is slowly replacing the ones I purchase with others

And quite a thing it is: I count nine chip-carved layers (of heavier wood than cigar box wood)

Hand-formed

Super Bright and Graphic c. 1930-40s Tumbling Blocks Doll Quilt dome lid and over-the-top withinI find tumbling block quilts completely stunning and magical sort of things the purest sort of optical illusions, and super modern feeling, especially when executed with blocks of bold, un patterned color, as with this doll's quilt (which I have to think made someone's doll dizzy!) C. 1930s 40s, and just the right size to frame and hang or just hang directly from a couple of pins at the corners. The perfect thing to zone out to, and a fantastic punch