Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf clip earrings mounted to black rag paper

mounted to black rag paper

stylized star

probably 1920s-40s)

Made in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s or so and gorgeously decorated

glazed the perfect shade of blue

Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf clip earrings mounted to black rag paperI haven't totally figured out why the image of a Dutch boy in this basic pose was so popular in the earlyish 20th century, but I've had several postcards in the shop featuring the same basic figure, and then here he was again on this cutout. What I really love about each, though, are the specific details and adaptations applied by the maker this one, bundled up in scarf and hat and with hands buried in pockets, I have to think was made sometime in the