Old Blue and White Carved Bird on Perch early wolverine grocery store tin immeasurable

immeasurable

but is also just a terrific sculptural object

and signed on the underside of one foot

and the pencil drawn details all over

presumed mid-century

Old Blue and White Carved Bird on Perch early wolverine grocery store tin immeasurableMeant to be a parrot, or parakeet, I believe, which I fell in love with for its bright blue and white paint, and for the shape of its head and beak, with those big orange glass eyes seeming a bit awkwardly placed in relation and so making this creature feel a bit surreal and also as if keeping a keen eye on everything around it! With a perch made of two cut branches with bark still on them, which I think suits it perfectly. Feels like a personality