Beautifully Wonky Early 20th C. Baseball yellow glazed all cotton

all cotton

and how that shift changes perceptions of it

which also makes me think of early distorted anamorphic images

I especially love the cages on either end of this one

Pieces measure about 4 to 4 1/2” long

Beautifully Wonky Early 20th C. Baseball yellow glazed all cottonI love old balls of many sorts, and find baseballs especially beautiful formally, and for the history of America's pastime they invoke. And most of all I love a wonky one this one even wonkier in person than photos convey. C. 1910s 20s I believe, with red and black stitches, and quite misshapen, as if having lived out in far left field through rain and snow for years before finally being found again. And so, to me, an empathetic object as well as a