Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy black porcelain sugar bowl a London-born artist who moved

a London-born artist who moved to the San Francisco area in the late 1800s

this little doll feels decidedly animate

Photos were taken in natural light

the book was mounted to a dark blue/black painted panel intensively carved with stars

) and then this pair of outward-facing birds at either side of the bottom with crescent moons at their tails

Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy black porcelain sugar bowl a London-born artist who movedThe more battered the better for me when it comes to old decoys it's the one's that wear their work on their backs (literally) and that show all sorts of losses and or repairs that I find most appealing, both aesthetically and empathetically! This one is most definitely one of those, with holes and bent nails scattered across its carved, black painted body, and a head that seems perhaps to have been salvaged from another and crudely nailed on, making