Hands at Rest, Vintage Clay Sculpture nesting egg allowing a couple of pieces

allowing a couple of pieces of grass to spring loose (see photos)

who took his inspiration from a woman creating a Grenfell Mission rug

Much of the label on the top is long gone

5 3/8" long

Hands at Rest, Vintage Clay Sculpture nesting egg allowing a couple of piecesFun, and pretty excellent as a tabletop sculpture, which can be flipped to show either way, giving one or the other the upper hand! And I do like to think of these as the hands of two different people, engaged in an an ongoing negotiation which makes me wish there were a whole series of these with the hands arranged in different gestures and postures with this pair (one connected piece) seeming to signify 'calm down' to me! Made of clay by molding