Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons with the features playfully rendered

with the features playfully rendered in black ink dots and line

I especially love the loss of paint on the face of this one

It really is a beauty

and made even better by the fabric framing her face

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

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons with the features playfully renderedThis 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