Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface fawn One on side are two

One on side are two holes-- blowing through the top one sets the hand-carved little wheel spinning

but I love it as an object

4 1/2" tall x 2 3/4" in diameter

and which a plant (or a cocktail

Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface fawn One on side are twoI find this game board spectacularly beautiful, with that creamy white paint making me swoon, and with the most phenomenal surface, that also has some mystery about it, which comes from the intermingling of the aged paint and tin it was painted upon brown and rust and silver all together, difficult to know quite where one ends and another begins. It was quite surprising at first to pick it up and find it quite light in weight, only then understanding