Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts carved figurine red painted mouths

red painted mouths

sent by "Red" from Camp Red Wedge

This is a stunning mid-century modern faience vase designed by Inge-Lise Koefoed for Royal Copenhagen as part of their Tenera line designed solely by female Scandinavian designers in the late 1950s-1960s

I thought it was ceramic

executed in crayon on lined paper

Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts carved figurine red painted mouthsNot an easy one to photograph as it stands almost 2 feet tall, but quite a wonderful, and definitely unusual, whimsy, unlike any I've seen. With a square base (it stands on its own) and tapering to a round bulb at top, it features four "cages" of sorts: one with with a squarish "ball", one with a "+" inside that slides up and down, and two with carved parts that extend well outside the cages, one straight across, the other in all four directions.