Carved playing elephants

Carved playing elephants

Carved playing elephants

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card2 back

Side 1
1M  Playing Elephants (babies?)  Am. 19th
3 ½ x 3 x 2 ¼″  maple  1880s  New England
-carved/painted whittled
-brown, black, green
-real folk art
-powerful, yet small, rising energies of contact?
$135 / John Hunt Marshall

Side 2
-think of Rudyard Kipling and The Victorian
-The great love of wood + carving
curiosity: fighting, nuzzling, playing?
-the “aggressor’s” truck is on the ground
-best, back against wall, captures action

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Side 1
1M  Playing Elephants (babies?)  Am. 19th
3 ½ x 3 x 2 ¼″  maple  1880s  New England
-carved/painted whittled
-brown, black, green
-real folk art
-powerful, yet small, rising energies of contact?
$135 / John Hunt Marshall

Side 2
-think of Rudyard Kipling and The Victorian
-The great love of wood + carving
curiosity: fighting, nuzzling, playing?
-the “aggressor’s” truck is on the ground
-best, back against wall, captures action

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2022-03-24T02:00:42+00:00
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