Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery I also begin to wonder

I also begin to wonder whether the person behind the camera was in fact thinking about sequence

Looks like ink and watercolor to me--on folded paper

highly finished carved animals

) And the paint on these

All lovely

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery I also begin to wonderMy first photo here is a composite showing two views of this carved stamp, a butter stamp I believe: target like concentric circles on one end, a cross hatched square on the other, and both sides tapering to the middle like an hourglass. I rarely buy a butter stamp or mold, including for having little expertise about them, but this feels completely transcendent to me, and also like a very modernist feeling carved object, which I'd be as inclined to