Big Ball in Cage Whimsy - 3 Inch Cube Kelco teapot but this was the one

but this was the one figurative print of the lot

but I have not been able to find it in the The New Yorker's archive in order to date it--but surely what makes for demographic perfection has become more complex and conflicted since it was published

I think this non-preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them

5ʺD × 4ʺH

mirroring the existing arrangements for their male counterparts

Big Ball in Cage Whimsy - 3 Inch Cube Kelco teapot but this was the oneOne of the things I really love about carved wooden whimsies is their infinite variety, even with the most straight forward of forms. I think this may be the largest ball in cage I've seen at 3 x 3 x 3 inches, with a ball so large it seems poised to bust out of its cage entirely! This one I'd guess dates to the mid 20th century or so, and reads as much as a tabletop minimalist sculpture as a folk art carving. There is a split in one side of the cage