Carved Swan Chair Arms, A Pair antique animal illustration Card: 6 3/8” x 5

Card: 6 3/8” x 5 3/8”

Pure love when I dug this drawing out from near the bottom of an overstuffed box filled with old magazine and a few other drawings by young Richard Page Thurton

So perfect

and like that they feel very much like a couple

Carved Swan Chair Arms, A Pair antique animal illustration Card: 6 3/8” x 5I found these hanging side by side on a wall and they just struck me as beautiful things to display that way the long necks of the swans together forming an upside down heart with front sides facing. These were once the arms of a chair, and a fun chair it must have been. I am pretty certain they were hard carved, as there is variation among the faces, and a little surface roughness on the inside of the curves of the necks. My photos of these are not