Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull crochet sample book and clearly very old

and clearly very old

freeing up their hands for sewing or trimming the leather

5" tall x 3 3/4" in diameter

woven to form a teapot

(There are two holes in her backside

Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull crochet sample book and clearly very oldThis wonderful seagull, carved of wood and polychromed, has a familiarity about it to me, as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place. It's definitely not your average seagull, I really think done by someone known, and something tells me from Nova Scotia but that's just a hunch. The painterly white head with mossy green yellow tipped beak is just glorious, and I love the way it stands balanced on tail features with wire