Mother and Child at Window, Old Folk Art Relief Carving hand-carved wooden swallows very sturdy and stable

very sturdy and stable

but the backs are all blank

it's a beautiful thing

patience and dexterity involved

all with balletic grace

Mother and Child at Window, Old Folk Art Relief Carving hand-carved wooden swallows very sturdy and stableThis one doesn't photograph especially well, and the surface shows a little wear and dryness but the face on that baby! His little hands, too, and the long fingered hands of his mother wrapping him from either side, and her lovely face looking down on him, with the cross of the window panes revealed behind a pulled curtain to her left, countered by the waves of her hair pulled back in a bun. Quite a charming and tender thing I think, with the name of