Lyrical, Beautifully Weathered Antique Make Do Drying Rack decorative container This is a beautiful antique

This is a beautiful antique treen box

Continuing today's theme of funny little things I couldn't resist

and is good for displaying one side for a while then turning it over to show the other

and a little cracking to the paint on the chest on one side

and just perfectly what it is

Lyrical, Beautifully Weathered Antique Make Do Drying Rack decorative container This is a beautiful antiqueLiving at a time when concern with truth seems ever diminishing, the appeal, to me at least, of things like honestly weathered old wood grows in inverse proportion! And since I found this old thing, a primitive hanging drying rack I presume, at a old school antique shop in the Mohawk Valley in Upstate NY, its humble beauty and lyricism have struck me anew every time I look at it and made it one of my favorite recent finds. (With a kinship in my mind