Ball in Cage with Links (and Hole!) Whimsy James Bone collage drawing the stone and the appearance

the stone and the appearance of the carving makes it seem more akin in nature to jade

indigenous birds and insects

Definitely inspiration should one want to start training

but the spelling (and middle initial) are wrong

Ball in Cage with Links (and Hole!) Whimsy James Bone collage drawing the stone and the appearancePart of what I love most about this whimsy, which I believe has a fair amount of age to it, is the round hole that runs straight through one of the links but touches neither edge, giving the whole thing a sort of miraculous precariousness. (I have no idea how it got there. That curious hole aside, it was quite nicely carved, all from one piece of wood, with an interesting long double ended link, two smaller ones of different lengths, and a ball in