Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons to me his face has

to me his face has a bit of a Spanish Colonial feel

loaded up with little pencil-drawn ornaments on the lower half and blazing candles on top

It really is a beauty

and made even better by the fabric framing her face

with the features playfully rendered in black ink dots and line

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons to me his face hasThis 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