Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics and it's directness now as

and it's directness now as a declaration of flatness

it was created and signed by Karin og Aase

and one more equidistant up from the bottom

It was made from a "400 year old bristle cone pine" by a JE Lux (or JELUX)

I've searched a bunch and found similar ones described as late 19th century Rockingham glazed and as Bennington flint glazed

Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics and it's directness now asI don't much collect decoys, which represent a whole different world of expertise, but I found this such a striking and perfectly stark object that I could not resist it. I really love the long neck and dramatic angle of that root head terminating in white painted beak, and then the wonderful rich dark charcoal black of the carved body with rounded belly. On the underside is a metal plate which allows it to stay upright on the water (and it does