Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child dansk teak About as pure and poignant

About as pure and poignant as it gets

a great little banding of red and green lines near the top of the blade

it is stuck on pretty well

with some losses for sure

It is in good condition overall

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child dansk teak About as pure and poignantThis is my favorite object I found at Brimfield, which I purchased from an excellent dealer who had it in his personal collection for several decades. Carved from one block of wood, what a sense of deep connection between parent and child it conveys, specific and universal. I love that the parent appears of no specific gender, and I love the faces and ears! on both parent and child. But most of all I love the dangling legs of the baby, draped around