Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg and a rainbow of colors

and a rainbow of colors

The ball in cage measures 3 1/8" t x 7/8" w x 3/4" d

the outer one overlapping

simple period frame

making the whole thing feel like a gothic house of sorts and revealing a lithographed portrait glued to the interior I might set up a little scenario to be viewed through the round opening

Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg and a rainbow of colorsIt's the unicorn carved into the surface of this old school desk top that really won me maybe drawn as a horse and acquiring a single horn along the way! And it and feels like a persistent and resilient presence refusing to be erased, even as the rest of the surface looks to have been scrubbed down hard again and again. Some enduring loves (S. L + L. R., etc. too) and this cross or plus sign that feels like the unicorn's personal guiding star! I think