Stunning Mid Century Brutalist Heavy Bronze Vase folk art figurative painting The one is housed in

The one is housed in a vintage medicine bottle with graduated measure in the sides

This fabulous birds in tree puzzle /balancing toy /display piece I think perfectly encapsulates the spirit and philosophy of the wonderful design company that was Creative Playthings

The underside of the drawers on this one are indeed orange

seeming to possess a definite Dolly-ness (or vice verse

which launched in 1913

Stunning Mid Century Brutalist Heavy Bronze Vase folk art figurative painting The one is housed inI found this strikingly sculptural, very heavy bronze vase 7+ pounds worth in upstate New York, near the Hudson River Valley, at a bit of an out of the way and happily under picked spot. I'd call it brutalist, artist made, though it is unsigned, at least as far as I can see. Voluptuous and super visceral, with with what appear to be thumb prints pressed into the body, and Pollock esque drips animating the surface. Somehow it also reminds me a bit of a