Carved, Jointed Wooden Ballerina Mannequin, Signed middlesex england including featured on the cover

including featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly

Filled with a bunch of daisies and placed on the kitchen counter or breakfast table

This fantastic horse was one of a phenomenal set of old handmade Punch and Judy puppets

The tradition of carved wooden "Love spoons" apparently dates to mid 1600’s

Carved, Jointed Wooden Ballerina Mannequin, Signed middlesex england including featured on the coverI am not sure if this figure once wore a costume, but I do believe she is meant to be a ballerina, with this sort of fascinator esque hair piece, I assume enclosing her chignon. She's not exactly my usual taste, but I just couldn't pass her by, thinking about all of the effort that went into her making and I also really rather love her strange face, with these giant cat like blue eyes. The extremely ballerina esque exaggerated lengths of her jointed