Easter Egg of an Antique Painted Darner original Lantz Nova Scotia mushrooms The chunky scale and improvisatory-feeling

The chunky scale and improvisatory-feeling forms of the chip carved

Really terrific

really quite beautiful

with pontils at either end

Easter Egg of an Antique Painted Darner original Lantz Nova Scotia mushrooms The chunky scale and improvisatory-feelingI just couldn't resist the old paint on this one so pretty, with that most amazing deep cornflower sort of a blue, and feeling very much like an easter egg, with a handle to boot. As is not too often the case in my experience, the handle here does actually screw off and the egg will then stand on its own. I'd be inclined to stick it in a vase like a flower or maybe lay it in a nest! About 6 inches long or so, I forget to take exact dimensions but the