Primitive Handmade Whisk-type Brush with Wire Wrapped Wood Handle - Reserved for J.L metal pin and I interpret the image

and I interpret the image as a woman's face in profile

which at least according to one source were used to carry cooked food to monasteries—an offer to the monks as an act of merit-earning

as he would have made a great protagonist--or antagonist--in many a drama

The two largest have sliding tops

Primitive Handmade Whisk-type Brush with Wire Wrapped Wood Handle - Reserved for J.L metal pin and I interpret the imageThis may be my favorite brush yet! I think the construction is amazing, with what I believe are horsehair bristles running both horizontally, along the handle and, and vertically, tethered by wire, and then bound again by stitched string. The lines, patterns, textures make this feel as much like sculpture as a functional object, and a really satisfying and substantial one. Just gorgeous. I believe there was once a metal end cap attached to the end of