Sweet Old Chalkware House Incense Burner antique arts and crafts vase Something about those five pieces

Something about those five pieces of yellow chalk held up by those tall stretches of bent wire really does it for me aesthetically (almost like five abstracted figures lined up in a row)

and incised marks to individuate fingers

is in excellent condition (the wood is just gorgeous

This homemade iteration— with hardware store gold on black stickers on white painted wheel bolted to orange stand—is not especially refined

Detail photos provide a good sense

Sweet Old Chalkware House Incense Burner antique arts and crafts vase Something about those five piecesI love most things house shaped, and really love the detailing on this little chalkware cabin incense burner, with all those incised lines for siding and gridded shingles on the roof. I also really love its function with a hole for a stick of incense inside, and then an open channel up the chimney for the smoke to emerge. And I presume the color on it was in least part accrued from doing just that. A good little thing. 3 3 8" x 2 9 16" x 2 1 4" t and