Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons loaded up with little pencil-drawn

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

with the features playfully rendered in black ink dots and line

6 1/4" x 8 3/4" x 3/4"

The reverse shows that linen tape has been used to back a couple of small tears and along a couple of inches of fold line to stabilize--well done and not visible from the front

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

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons loaded up with little pencil-drawnThis 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