Hands at Rest, Vintage Clay Sculpture water trees animals Beautifully made

Beautifully made

Plus just the word "hinge" and all it connotes

These dogs are from a larger group of 19th c

and if one looks closely one can make out the "Pat'd" on one side

Finding drawings like this gives me infinite joy

Hands at Rest, Vintage Clay Sculpture water trees animals Beautifully madeFun, and pretty excellent as a tabletop sculpture, which can be flipped to show either way, giving one or the other the upper hand! And I do like to think of these as the hands of two different people, engaged in an an ongoing negotiation which makes me wish there were a whole series of these with the hands arranged in different gestures and postures with this pair (one connected piece) seeming to signify 'calm down' to me! Made of clay by molding