Strange 1929 Devilish Bird in Egg Watercolor folk carvings Originally used for holding cutlery

Originally used for holding cutlery

and a remnant of thread at his waist

and a bit of light staining along the bottom edge

but over time I've come to gravitate toward decidedly imperfect things

Strange 1929 Devilish Bird in Egg Watercolor folk carvings Originally used for holding cutleryA weird one for sure, but I'm pretty into this watercolor gouache, done by a Silova O. Kolin in 1929. I might guess it has something to do with the end of one decade and beginning of another, perhaps with this black devil bird meant to represent the hatching the year 1930 (not really a great year in the history of things), screaming as it does. Or maybe it is just an anthroporphism of the proverbial primal scream. In any event, I think the pointy