Emile Bluteau Brown Duck Canadian Folk Art Sculpture jug with plug I think is just terrific

I think is just terrific

I love a good lacquer box

with a B below for Brenda

This guy may just be my new very favorite thing

and great addition to a whimsy collection

Emile Bluteau Brown Duck Canadian Folk Art Sculpture jug with plug I think is just terrificI really really love the matter of factness of this duck; no more than what it needs to be and seemingly perfectly suited to go for a float and I find that flat expanse of chocolate brown paint weirdly but truly satisfying. It's the work of Emile Bluteau (1931 ?), a well known Quebecois folk artist, who began carving in the late 70s, first birds and then"the human condition in all its moods and shapes" as described by Lyle Elder, a great documenter of