Charming Nail Art Swingset with Two Animals! Qajar tile and then these wonderful hand-painted

and then these wonderful hand-painted marching red birds in great dark red

with many years of swatting left in it

and hard to beat a set of nine that includes both soldiers AND sailors

mounted--I believe these were cut out of a scrapbook at some point as they have portions of clippings on the reverse

I'd guess it dates from the first half of the 20th century

Charming Nail Art Swingset with Two Animals! Qajar tile and then these wonderful hand-paintedI've seen plenty of nail art skiers and the like, but never a tiny swingset, or abstracted animals like this, all done with a precision and elegance that I find really lovely while also, in a curious way, seeming to honor the integrity of the nails themselves. I feel like this might integrate fairly nicely into Calder's circus, and rather transcends its folk nature to feel like a tiny modernist sculpture. Swingset measures 3 1 16" w x 2 3 4" t. "Horse