Gorgeous Antique Hand-carved Whimsy Cube with Fantastic Patina schoolgirl drawing oil on stretched canvas and

oil on stretched canvas and in very good condition

with blue spots on the wings and for tail feathers

There is a little loss to one far edge of the slide top box

--on the bottom in a calligraphic manner that I have not been able to decipher

it works fine for displaying him when not in play

Gorgeous Antique Hand-carved Whimsy Cube with Fantastic Patina schoolgirl drawing oil on stretched canvas andTop my eye this is a spectacularly beautiful thing, and also a magical feeling one, made of individually carved pieces that interlock just so, with no glue used to held them together. It makes a wonderful soft rattle when held and gently shaken, a bit like a drift wood wind chime knocking in the breeze. It is a very old one, 19th c. I am sure, with a phenomenal patina to the dry pine. Not a missing piece and really stunning. Approx 5 5 8 cubed. Small