Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy black porcelain sugar bowl a London-born artist who moved

a London-born artist who moved to the San Francisco area in the late 1800s

I've had a few of these old push button boxing toys in the shop

) and then this pair of outward-facing birds at either side of the bottom with crescent moons at their tails

I was struck at the moment by the similarities among them in their charming

It feels very mid-century to me

Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy black porcelain sugar bowl a London-born artist who movedThe more battered the better for me when it comes to old decoys it's the one's that wear their work on their backs (literally) and that show all sorts of losses and or repairs that I find most appealing, both aesthetically and empathetically! This one is most definitely one of those, with holes and bent nails scattered across its carved, black painted body, and a head that seems perhaps to have been salvaged from another and crudely nailed on, making