Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina riveted figure but the wheel turns smoothy

but the wheel turns smoothy and it seems ready to be put to use baking something delicious

The box is stamped Phang Kim Tjoeng and Banka Blinjoe on the bottom

this piece has been repaired: there is a crack that runs across her face and across his front

and I don't think particularly old

and a black interior

Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina riveted figure but the wheel turns smoothyIn my younger days I spent some time as an art critic, and I can't look at this terrific Fire Exit sign now without wanting to write about it in conceptual terms, though I'm pretty certain that was not its maker's intent! But whether or not fully aware, what they definitely managed to do was to create a very singular copy of a ubiquitous utilitarian sign a gorgeously painterly version that as such also (re)invests the language of the sign with new and