Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple dowry basket which seems exactly right: "bull_"

which seems exactly right: "bull_" might characterize a lot about our times

--to begin with

painted on both sides

but structurally just fine

rendered in that amazing Persian blue with green belly and wings

Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple dowry basket which seems exactly right: "bull_"I thought about selling these two individually, but as I photographed them realized they really are a couple (he's taller, she's wider) so thought best to keep them together, including for the fact that they're plenty large and heavy to function as bookends (or doorstops for that matter; they're 2+ lbs each.) I purchased them from a seller who found them at an estate sale in Alabama but don't know who made them; they're carved of solid wood, thickly