Long Carved Folk Art Wood Spoon with Monograms and Face, 1910 ophthomology The compositions

The compositions

This painting

bright and crisp and clear

of eastern Burma/Myanmar

Long Carved Folk Art Wood Spoon with Monograms and Face, 1910 ophthomology The compositionsSatisfying form, substantial weight and nice long handle to this old hand carved spoon, but it is the details that make it: two monograms on the bowl of the spoon, the number 10 on the back of it, plus "America", a strange little alien esque face, the date 5 22 10 [1910 I'm pretty certain], various passages of cross hatching, and one more monogram on the handle. I've been paying attention to old carved spoons lately, as they're really about as central