Folky Antique Crewelwork Perched Peacock with Birds and Ivy stone pipe with a little surface scratching

with a little surface scratching at far left

but it remains to my eye a very beautiful thing

feeling like old friends

but on the both sides of the silver end on are marks for 4 and 5 inches

which also feels to me like a pure embodiment of curiosity

Folky Antique Crewelwork Perched Peacock with Birds and Ivy stone pipe with a little surface scratchingAfter finding and quickly selling a wonderful early 19th century ink and watercolor folk art drawing of a peacock a week or so ago, it felt like a bit of a sign when I came across this embroidered one this week in Maine. As with that drawing, this one is rendered not in spectacular blues and purples but rather in a variety of shades of golds and browns, which make it feel quite majestic but in a subtler sort of way (and, like that drawing, it is much