Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics and it's directness now as

and it's directness now as a declaration of flatness

Just luscious

as I think they surpass all other little brass ducks

During the 2nd half of the19th century

It was made from a "400 year old bristle cone pine" by a JE Lux (or JELUX)

Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics and it's directness now asI don't much collect decoys, which represent a whole different world of expertise, but I found this such a striking and perfectly stark object that I could not resist it. I really love the long neck and dramatic angle of that root head terminating in white painted beak, and then the wonderful rich dark charcoal black of the carved body with rounded belly. On the underside is a metal plate which allows it to stay upright on the water (and it does