Boy, Cow, Dog, Pregnant Mother, Couple, Beautiful Antique Mounted Albumen Farm Photograph cast terracotta planter This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquer

This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquer box

Skillfully made

A little searching turns up that Italian marble pietra dura "specimen" rulers were a thing

the shorter with crosshatched patterns that for some reason remind me of pineapples

this old hand-carved spoon

Boy, Cow, Dog, Pregnant Mother, Couple, Beautiful Antique Mounted Albumen Farm Photograph cast terracotta planter This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquerA beauty of a photograph, crystal clear, richly tonal, very atmospheric, and with a with lots packed into it. Due north of this sweet looking boy (with the elbow of his sweater worn entirely through) is a woman standing in the doorway of the house, I imagine his mother, who looks to be very pregnant, watching over the scene and making for a nice echo with the parental sort of affection this boy seems have for this young cow. Along the very bottom edge