Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman anniversary present it takes a pretty striking

it takes a pretty striking piece of mcm pottery to get me excited at this point

I think I would take it to a framer if wishing to reframe it

and I really really love those trees

to give pride of place

painted white) measures 10 1/4” x 10 1/4”

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman anniversary present it takes a pretty strikingThis early 20th century ink drawing of a woman in her tennis playing outfit looking poised for a match just makes me happy, making me think of tennis, and sport more generally, as (in some ways at least) a realm of freedom and liberation. And, indeed, over the course of the past century plus, tennis has provided a field for that (literally) perhaps more than any other sport. And so I, who likes to map meaning onto everything, see, in this serene but