c. 1920s-30s Carved and Painted Folk Art Bird on Scalloped Base curiousity but is also just a

but is also just a terrific sculptural object

10 1/2" long measured as a straight line from head to tail

Not a missing piece and really stunning

with those juicy little tails at the ends of the S and C

I found him yesterday in Maine

c. 1920s-30s Carved and Painted Folk Art Bird on Scalloped Base curiousity but is also just aI found this little carved and painted bird in upstate New York not far from Albany, and it seems to me likely the creation of a folk carver in a cabin somewhere in the Adirondacks in the 1920s or 30s or so. I take the bird with gray body and black band around its neck as duck, either taking off or just landed, with wings outspread and neck extended. Lovingly carved, with nicely tapering wings and tail, and attached by nailed legs to the cream painted