Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel the glaze is lush

the glaze is lush

and the only I've seen like it

state by state (blue states and red states and green and yellow ones too

but the naughty birding cat is pretty timeless

though again a bit hard to tell at which stage in the life of the image

Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel the glaze is lushWhat better object, and symbol, and reminder (!) than an hourglass? This is an earlyish 20th century fraternal one, probably Odd Fellows, found in Upstate New York, carved of wood and clad in its original silver and gold paint, nicely mellowed now. There are earlier, much more finely carved (and very precious) examples of these out there, but I like the simplicity and sort of matter of factness of this one as if wanting to be very direct in