Pair of Vintage Swiss Wooden Cutout Animals in the Manner of Antonio Vitali sandstone but this basket is in

but  this basket is in really excellent condition and quite a special piece

like a watercolor painting rendered in inky shades of mossy green and brown and cream

I don't know much about this huge decorative stoneware plate

but these would also just be great displayed among other little carvings or curiosities

and decidedly non-fierce

Pair of Vintage Swiss Wooden Cutout Animals in the Manner of Antonio Vitali sandstone but this basket is inThese wooden animals dogs, I'd think? feel so familiar, but I haven't been able to figure out their maker. Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings), and there is a Made in Switzerland sticker on the underside. At any rate, I think they make a pretty great modernist pair to sit on a shelf somewhere and also indestructible