Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf clip earrings stylized star

stylized star

glazed the perfect shade of blue

Oisín Kelly (1915–1981) was a prominent Irish sculptor who worked in wood

such that I would likely just find a good place to display it--and turn it around occasionally to get a different view

Made in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s or so and gorgeously decorated

Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf clip earrings stylized starI haven't totally figured out why the image of a Dutch boy in this basic pose was so popular in the earlyish 20th century, but I've had several postcards in the shop featuring the same basic figure, and then here he was again on this cutout. What I really love about each, though, are the specific details and adaptations applied by the maker this one, bundled up in scarf and hat and with hands buried in pockets, I have to think was made sometime in the