Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child poured brass but stable and sound

but stable and sound

with its brown squiggles--set against bright white and framed in mustard yellow--almost like abstracted figures marching around the perimeter of the vase

with just the very tiniest of tiny chips on the lip

and then smartly looped through the weave of the basket below

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child poured brass but stable and soundThis 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