Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics It was made from a

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

reading rather like an adobe house built into an anthropomorphic mountain with a protective arm extended out front carving out a private terrace

During the 2nd half of the19th century

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 It was made from aI 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