Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle antique animal prints With some old paper adhered

With some old paper adhered to the underside that I didn't try to remove but looks like it could be soaked off

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

with a few light scattered stains

I found this antique  lovely in Lancaster County

) At the very end are a few pages of penmanship practice too

Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle antique animal prints With some old paper adheredA 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