Stunning Large Mandala Type Drawing in Lemon Gold Frame mid-century japanese which preceeded Bluff as the

which preceeded Bluff as the name for the tag-like game

Photos show first the brighter blue then the paler blue bird

and I think the hand-painted black lines against creamy white are pretty hard to beat

Each side measures approximately 14 1/2" tall x 22 3/4"

This is a beautiful pair of vintage hand-painted Australian Aboriginal clap sticks

Stunning Large Mandala Type Drawing in Lemon Gold Frame mid-century japanese which preceeded Bluff as theForgive my not very good photos here, especially the full view, but the frame is quite large and my photo set up is limited! This is, however, really quite a spectacular thing, the existence of which stuns and sends me every time I look at it, and feels rather as if having arrived from another universe fully formed. (It also very much makes me think of the paintings of Hilma af Klint.) I have to guess it was done as a very elaborate, very beautifully