Uncommon Old Sleeve Stretcher with Graceful Lines and Warm Patina early Scheier pottery marvelous details

marvelous details

but it could be used as a shot glass in a pinch

that flat appears to cut right through a slit in the vessel/casing

I think it maybe once was attached to a base

is the inclusion of an Anima Sola

Uncommon Old Sleeve Stretcher with Graceful Lines and Warm Patina early Scheier pottery marvelous detailsThis feels to me akin to Shaker sweater stretchers and the mitten stretchers I listed last week too; this one with a strong tension to the hinged metal strips held between gracefully arching and tapering pieces of pine, which would be inserted inside a sleeve and then released to pull it taut. And it's one that feels like a graceful three dimensional line drawing to me, and with a terrific warm, dry wood patina to the pine, too. 22 1 2" l x 10" w