Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing Chinese occupation painting 1946--shortly after the end of

1946--shortly after the end of the WWII and beginning of Allied occupation

deep and even basketweave texture

but the mounts are still super functional should one to slip some new lists into them

keep me clean

I've had a number of these old Czech "ramp walkers" characters in the shop

Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing Chinese occupation painting 1946--shortly after the end ofThis breaks my heart, but I love it so much and really in significant part for exactly that reason. In the text at the bottom, its maker misspelled "thee" as "the", but I've figured out it reads: I can not give the(e) up, with all thy faults I love the(e) still." And on the reverse: "No one to love." And then this poor fellow, flowers in hand, standing at the doorstep of the one he loves, who does not seem especially eager to open the door and let him