SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life handdrawn with the arching piece meant

with the arching piece meant to be a manger

with "hook" that folds out to be used to pull one's laces tight

and gilding too

Clearly I've got words and language on my brain this week--plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine--so here's this lovely

and managing to impart her with a lot of character in the process

SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life handdrawn with the arching piece meantI've got a particular penchant for paintings of pipes that I think is grounded with Magritte. This trompe l'oeil style oil on canvas is not tightly painted enough to fool anyone, which perhaps makes it especially Magritte ian! I take that for an opium pouch at right, with what I presume is meant to be yellow silk at top and then a red tie, and then a couple of cigars kind of awkwardly poking out from inside the box? And a corn cob pipe at near left,