Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village with Church repetitive This terrific pair of candlesticks

This terrific pair of candlesticks was designed by Mikaela Dorfel

also as pictured

On the side of the chop is incised text

This chop was purchased from the estate of a collector in central Massachusetts which included a phenomenal array of fine figurines and animal-related art and objects from around the world

dated August 8

Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village with Church repetitive This terrific pair of candlesticksI'm really smitten with this sweet little "naive" pencil drawing of a hillside village, one of two in the shop that came from a larger collection of drawings executed by the unknown artist on a Grand Tour encompassing Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Norway. I love everything about it, perhaps the way the row of trees march neatly up the hill behind the village most of all, punctuated by a cross at the very top, but also those tiny benches, all those