Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray coiled grass with silvery clouds and purple

with silvery clouds and purple mountains giving way to blue sky at the top--a landscape that feels very 80s

) Just over 2" tall x 1 1/4" wide x 1/2" deep

HJG and HJP

and often several of them together

This circa 1970s Mexican folk art triple vase or triple candleholder--with the most beatific face I can imagine--is unsigned

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray coiled grass with silvery clouds and purpleIf not made during wartime, this emphatically handmade ashtray at least has a very strong make do trench art sensibility, and the brass looks very much to me like melted down shell casings. I really love its fat walled, amoeba like shape, and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe, and revealed to be one plate when turned over) that read a bit like landmasses with a river running through. Really an excellent object I think, perfect on the