Helen Wagner Malta 1930s Drawing of Tattooed Woman with Eyes All Over! gift for cook and perfect for serving salads

and perfect for serving salads and all sorts of other things

Smaller: 2" tall x 1 1/2" d

I am fairly certain this lovely small Japanese lacquer on papier mache box dates to Meiji period

it is not a crack or chip

Just a lovely old blonde wood bevelled glass hand mirror with a great round loop at the base of the handle making for easy holding and hanging

Helen Wagner Malta 1930s Drawing of Tattooed Woman with Eyes All Over! gift for cook and perfect for serving saladsThis wonderful ink drawing feels completely contemporary to me, but was done in the 1930s by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), who signed it along the outside curve of the right foot. From what I understand, it came from a sketchbook of her drawings from that time when she was teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Malta's work, which included drawings, paintings and prints, is found in