SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life handdrawn Clearly I've got words and

Clearly I've got words and language on my brain this week--plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine--so here's this lovely

and managing to impart her with a lot of character in the process

and gilding too

Scattered losses to the plaster along the edge of the roof all the way around and other dings here and there

which appears to have some glue residue (not sticky and not showing through) on reverse

SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life handdrawn Clearly I've got words andI've got a particular penchant for paintings of pipes that I think is grounded with Magritte. This trompe l'oeil style oil on canvas is not tightly painted enough to fool anyone, which perhaps makes it especially Magritte ian! I take that for an opium pouch at right, with what I presume is meant to be yellow silk at top and then a red tie, and then a couple of cigars kind of awkwardly poking out from inside the box? And a corn cob pipe at near left,