Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs red and tan but also with a mounting

but also with a mounting bracket on one side which would allow for one hand alarm sounding

4 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" wide x 1 1/2" deep

These cheerful blue enamel kitchen canisters with wooden lids were produced by Valenti

happily attached to a great black painted wooden post with gold painted pointy finial

(And a great preliminary sketch on the reverse side

Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs red and tan but also with a mountingThe shape of this old carved wood buoy does it for me, with the sway of the form making with think of a human figure, back arched and belly protruding. What makes it really beautiful to me, though, is the surface patina, particularly how the white paint shows a rainbow of scuffs and stains accumulated through banging up against other things. Like a 3 dimensional painting that might happily live next to a Frank Stella or Richard Tuttle, and I'd treat