Classically Inspired Lovers with Grapes in Hand, Folk Art Relief Carving antique dutch map Sight: 11 1/2" x 10

Sight: 11 1/2" x 10 1/8"

or used as a doorstop

which makes it seem a bit like an Opium-fueled vision

from the geometries of the field to the uniforms to the gestures of the throw and swing and catch

Worn and aged as evident but very sound and stable

Classically Inspired Lovers with Grapes in Hand, Folk Art Relief Carving antique dutch map Sight: 11 1/2" x 10I really love this relief carving, surely inspired by an image on a Grecian urn or something along those lines, and I have to think one with a bacchanalian theme, as she grips a bunch of grapes in her raised hand. (Perhaps he is reaching for one with his extended arm, too!) Such wonderfully folky faces, hers tiny in comparison the the rest of her body, with great curtain of hair hanging down as he holds her, with a (very large!) hand at her waist. The