Cerulean Warbler by F.F. Gesner, Unusual 1930 Carved Bird on Branch Mounted to Painted Wall Plaque water trees animals I purchased this beautifully beaded

I purchased this beautifully beaded ball at an antique show in Maine

but honoring her beauty and femininity

fashioned of old crate wood showing a stenciled tea label on the underside of the top lid

a smear to the paint on the stool at right (I'd guess original to it)

and in the right situation it will cast the most glorious shadows

Cerulean Warbler by F.F. Gesner, Unusual 1930 Carved Bird on Branch Mounted to Painted Wall Plaque water trees animals I purchased this beautifully beadedThis is less a wall hanging that a whole environment lending our Cerulean Warbler a world of its own. (The branches extend nearly seven inches from the wall, so it is a real perch!) I just immediately fell in love with the bird, really wonderfully carved and painted (better in person), and then quite unusual in my experience to find one with such an elaborate wall mount as this, painted to evoke just the sort of moody, deciduous forest where Cerulean