Amazing Japanese Mingei Folded Paper Snake with Glass Bead Eyes boys with horse amoeba-like shape

amoeba-like shape

Really a pretty perfect thing

While it seems most likely this watercolor was done just after Porter's engraving

I realized how much better it is to have them all together

like a very kindly and interesting guy who one might like to have a beer with

Amazing Japanese Mingei Folded Paper Snake with Glass Bead Eyes boys with horse amoeba-like shapeWhat a lot of careful folding went into the creation of this very wonderful paper snake, Japanese (Mingei essentially means 'folk art' in Japanese) and dating to the early 20th century I believe. I've only found one other of these out there, near identical in manner though somewhat larger than this one, sold via 1st Dibs; that one was housed in its original wooden crate, with hand painted paper label, which helped in the dating of this one. It appears