Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird antique wooden hand mirror the bottom of this basket

the bottom of this basket shows the museum accession number for it

" made in Czechoslovakia probably 1930s

Great in the kitchen--or in the wine cellar should one be so lucky as to have one

and with wear and some loss to the white paint for sure

almost like a piece of tramp art

Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird antique wooden hand mirror the bottom of this basketA very lovely early Spencerian (calligraphic) ink drawing of a bird (with a list of expenses on the back, making me like it all the more.) But what is especially good about this one is that not only was it is signed by its maker "executed by" a T. J. Pearce, I believe it reads but he (I presume) also noted the time it took to draw: "in three minutes." Which suggests, as if not already apparent, that he was quite a practiced Spencerian calligrapher. I