Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle antique animal prints with a few light scattered

with a few light scattered stains

7" x 3 7/8"

14 1/2" l x 7 1/4" w

I also really like the rhyme between the lifted back leg of the Hermes/Mercury statue behind the occupant of this library/sitting room and the elevated foot of his crossed leg

Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle antique animal prints with a few light scatteredA beautiful and also somewhat mysterious feeling thing, or group of things, which I just needed to bring home and be around for a bit. The wood is here is a hard wood, with a very smooth surface (if I were better at identifying woods I would!) Feels much more like a modernist sculpture than something made for a child, and with a tension about how the two positive forms relate to the cutouts in the rectangular block the end grain patterns tell us they