Folk Art Miniature Table and Chairs in Original Mint and Red Paint hand-embroidered needle book running from chin to feet)

running from chin to feet)

This is the second miniature furniture piece (though the scale of this is more tabletop sculpture than dollhouse) I've found in as many weeks with carved "teeth"

I just had the thought that maybe H Manning was a magician and this was a trick box

I've just learned this piece is by well known ceramic artist Andrew Martin

I believe that is Russian

Folk Art Miniature Table and Chairs in Original Mint and Red Paint hand-embroidered needle book running from chin to feet)I purchased these two chairs and table together with two more chairs, clearly made by the same parent or grandparent for a child many years ago, but thought perhaps best to split into two groups, as the minty green and red paint packs quite a visual punch! I think they're quite fantastic, each piece invested with a whole lot of love, down to the carved and striped legs and pinwheel patterned top of the table. And the chairs were constructed in