Abstracted Figure(s), Modernist Mid Century Carved Sculpture antique chalkboard but this bowl does have

but this bowl does have irregularities

in the same (wonderfully framed out) spot is a tintype portrait of an older woman

I love how how the outline of what one assumes is meant to be his beard looks equally like a neck or a droopy chin

as if they are old friends and this happens everyday

relating to making everything from pompoms to fancy buttonholes to pockets

Abstracted Figure(s), Modernist Mid Century Carved Sculpture antique chalkboard but this bowl does haveThis carving, which I purchased from a mostly mid century dealer with a really nice eye, just struck me with every turn it seems just about to resolve into something, like a pair of embracing figures, or a figure carrying a child, but it never quite does and so feels perpetually elusive and dynamic. From a few angles it also really appears as if there are the features of a face, or two, trapped just below the surface, waiting to emerge! 9 1 2 t x 3 3