Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase The bowl measures 9 1/2”

The bowl measures 9 1/2” across at widest and 5 1/2” tall

which shows some age

I love the simplicity of this hand-carved wooden letter opener--nothing fancy about it

stoic ceramic bull has a presence much grander than its size

Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase The bowl measures 9 1/2”I'm quite taken with this small painting, which I can't stop looking at, and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size, though its scale is exactly right. I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue, which winds through and around the rest of the forms, literally tying them together. I'd guess the painting titled "The Story" portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with red tree at