Danish Modern Wooden Duck ceramic ashtray This fabulous vintage hand carved

This fabulous vintage hand carved wooden cigarette dispenser

contemporary

including Breuer

I purchased this piece at an antique shop in Maine and would guess it dates to the 1930s or 1940s

Danish Modern Wooden Duck ceramic ashtray This fabulous vintage hand carvedWhat a lovely and elegant duck! Though unmarked, I believe it is Danish Modern, and beautifully made, with an elongated beak perfectly balanced with the elongated body pointed in the other direction, it bears a strong resemblance to the work of Kristian Vedel. I believe the head is birch and the body teak. What I am not certain of is whether there is an intended function for the opening in the front of the body, which is about the right size to hold a