Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons with the features playfully rendered

with the features playfully rendered in black ink dots and line

I’ve always got an eye out for very believably bruised pieces

I especially love the loss of paint on the face of this one

Each combines a drawing and a poem

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons with the features playfully renderedThis 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