Incredible Pair of Ornate Antique Double Ball in Cage Whimsies, with Stand peach though I might just treat

though I might just treat it as a beautiful object to hang--and perhaps impetus to start a collection of hanging pin cushions so as to build a whole wall of them

a studio ceramicist from Keene New Hampshire (very near where I found this) who studied at Southern Oregon State College

and very sweetly imperfect close up

but the tiles and cards and in like new condition

Signed at lower right but I can't quite make out the name

Incredible Pair of Ornate Antique Double Ball in Cage Whimsies, with Stand peach though I might just treatThese I do believe are just about the most spectacular whimsies I've seen, and certainly had in my possession. Each was carved from one piece of wood, with either two or three small balls inside of each ones two cagesthe taller with carved fists at either end, the shorter with crosshatched patterns that for some reason remind me of pineapples! Ornately detailed all over, they make me think of bons bons rolled in fancy paper and cinched with bows at