SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption vintage playing cards set and right side up for

and right side up for one means the other is upside down

Another side is divided into 3/4" units

and I think just wonderful

12 x 7 1/2"

Vermont-based contemporary studio ceramicist widely known for slab-built vessels of a similar form but typically finished in more electric colors

SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption vintage playing cards set and right side up forI am obsessed with this snapshot and can't stop thinking about these two women in their long calico dresses, hands locked, hats on, backs turned, with "Sintwisters" written along the bottom in the same hand that dated it on reverse, August 1911. "Sintwisters" is certainly a "spoonerism" for twin sisters (the term getting its name from the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, 18441930, a priest and Oxford don, famous for his frequent slips of the tongue