A pair of hand-carved and polychrome painted folk art heads, likely constructed from a softwood? such as pine. Each figure is rendered in a naive, stylised manner with prominent carved noses and painted features, including blue eyes and red lips. One head wears a flat-topped cap or hat with natural wood grain visible through a light stain, while the other features a painted green headpiece decorated with white dots. The items are hollowed out at the base with cylindrical apertures, suggesting they were intended as puppet components, bottle stoppers, or as decorative finials for dowel-mounted displays. The carving shows distinct tool marks, particularly around the eyes and hair, and the bases exhibit rough-hewn textures with exposed end-grain.
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm.
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