Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box handmade ashtray I have looked at lots

I have looked at lots and lots of antique woven splint baskets

for sure--unevenly cut from its stretcher at some point

where I'd feel genially greeted and guarded

When man's work is done

and some empty holes in the wood too where some have been lost

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box handmade ashtray I have looked at lotsI purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration