Relief-carved Heavy Wooden Folk Art Virgo Wall Plaque laquer betel box 20 7/8” x 11 3/4”

20 7/8” x 11 3/4” x 2 7/8”

It was secured to paper

sugars or teas

viewable here

perhaps to grandly deliver the conductor to the big top

Relief-carved Heavy Wooden Folk Art Virgo Wall Plaque laquer betel box 20 7/8” x 11 3/4”For the Virgos out there (or the virgin maidens!) or just for someone like me who loves a folky nude. I purchased this from a seller in England, and believe it is carved of oak, stained and varnished. Virgo is associated with Astraea in Greek mythology the last immortal to abandon Earth when the gods fled to Olympus, hence the sign's association with Earth. The carved "egg and dart" border seems a knowing nod to the ancient Greeks as well, who used it