Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags woman with mirror showing white

showing white

Here we have an elephant

but its no wonder she's the subject of much romanticism and many many images

and the legs as separate layers

slightly mysterious thing

Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags woman with mirror showing whiteA satisfyingly visceral primitively carved old folk art whimsy, with these two large, fat balls barely contained by the cage. What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags, Spark Plug and Uncle Sam, which date it to right about 1900. (And if there were ever a tobacco tag that seemed just right for a whimsy, spark plug seems it to me!) I also love the that the "bars" of the cage are not perfectly