Lot of Antique German Powder Paint Pigments, Lustre Paint Blocks and More monkey toy (The balletic gestures of their

(The balletic gestures of their thin arms as they lay in a pile slays me

and this theorem-style watercolor captures three of them in all of their soft and lush blooming beauty

completely stable and not fragile/delicate (any more than any other piece of porcelain

but I have not been able to figure out what

as if just about to steal some carrots from the garden

Lot of Antique German Powder Paint Pigments, Lustre Paint Blocks and More monkey toy (The balletic gestures of theirI love finding things like this and so did the dealer I purchased this lot from, who had kept this lot in his own collection for 30 some years. Included are five German paint blocks for various shades of gold lustre (pale gold, bronze gold, etc), as well as two sealed glass bottle of oil (one of them clove oil) and two glass mixing pots. And then eight folded paper envelopes packed full with pure color pigment. Most appear never to have been opened