Red Velvet Old Handmade Pin Cushion with Stem! modernist pottery Heller began copying his idol

Heller began copying his idol Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

There is some dust in the bottom of the bottle

with what I'm pretty sure is its original paint--a dark red overall

I found this beautiful badger hair brush at the estate sale of an artist who had a gorgeous studio stocked with highest quality supplies for work in most every medium

This hip flask is very old

Red Velvet Old Handmade Pin Cushion with Stem! modernist pottery Heller began copying his idolI keep buying pin cushions, even if they aren't a big seller, because there are such a great variety of them out there, which someone took the time to make special, and I really like things that are both sculptural and useful. Plus, how to resist a red velvet one with stem on top? I have to think it was meant to be a tomato of sorts, and it is as large as one, and I found it with these white headed pins in it, which I think are the perfect