Mother and Child at Window, Old Folk Art Relief Carving antique school textbook Just a beautiful mid-century teak

Just a beautiful mid-century teak vase with great lines

This fabulous thing is a carved wood whistle in the shape of a bird

from what I can find with a little research

though they vary

Mother and Child at Window, Old Folk Art Relief Carving antique school textbook Just a beautiful mid-century teakThis one doesn't photograph especially well, and the surface shows a little wear and dryness but the face on that baby! His little hands, too, and the long fingered hands of his mother wrapping him from either side, and her lovely face looking down on him, with the cross of the window panes revealed behind a pulled curtain to her left, countered by the waves of her hair pulled back in a bun. Quite a charming and tender thing I think, with the name of