Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) pottery cooking pot is not glued in place

is not glued in place

with tilted cross atop this lookout platform seeming to me either to forbode a coming disaster or to mourn one having recently occurred

Nice old mend to the top right corner

with some use to the watercolor blocks as pictured

Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) pottery cooking pot is not glued in placeI'd never seen one of these before but do always have an eye out for a beautiful and unusual brush and what a great looking thing this one. It is a grain painting brush, also called a "pencil overgrainer" as one might imagine, this would allow the furniture painter to create five parallel lines in a single stroke, simulating the look of wood grain lines. And a little research shows that these were made in different sizes this one marked 3. Wood