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

and made even better by the fabric framing her face

It really is a beauty

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