Wonderful Early Folk Art Sawing Man Whirligig, Working! Baskets & Boxes Her pursed painted lips and

Her pursed painted lips and bent arms with hands on hips just amplify the effect

) And then the underside was attended to as well

holding the piece of curved blue card in place to the walls of the box

8 7/8" t x 6 5/8 d

take it to the beach or put it on a shelf and I think you will find it as perfect a pail as I do

Wonderful Early Folk Art Sawing Man Whirligig, Working! Baskets & Boxes Her pursed painted lips andThis is actually the very first whirligig I have ever bought (aside from a few figures salvaged from broken ones) I often look at them, but they often seem more awkward and cumbersome than I want to deal with but not this one, which I find really very elegant and just right in every possible way. Photos really do it no justice; the beauties of the old paint are subtle, the white doesn't come across well in images, and it has a terrific humble delicacy