Most Perfect Block Letters Alphabet Scarf with Polka Dot Border antique Japanese porcleain and houses a carved ladder

and houses a carved ladder

A bit of loss to a couple roof edges

which are very precious

with this butterfly-winged fairly waving her hand (holding magic herbs or mistletoe

the line of that long thin neck and small head--for me

Most Perfect Block Letters Alphabet Scarf with Polka Dot Border antique Japanese porcleain and houses a carved ladderThe dealer friend I purchased this from bought it years ago from Paula Rubenstein's shop in NYC; he paid a fair bit for it, and I did too, but it struck me as a completely perfect thing and I just couldn't walk away from it. (And I'll be glad to keep it for myself forever.) As a lover of letters, and alphabet blocks (and alphabet samplers, and antique spellers, and printed textiles, etc. etc.) and polka dots, too! for me it brings many things together