Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine needlwork and with the rather surreal

and with the rather surreal properties of these sea polyps

this striking large black vase is unmarked

forever holding this funny posture

Quite a frame

Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine needlwork and with the rather surrealI found this handsome wood duck in Southern Maine, perhaps not very far from where it was carved, though I haven't been able to find out much of anything about the H. Sloan who made it, other than that he, or she, was from Maine. However, I think perhaps they might be fairly recently deceased, as I recently found a collection of smaller carved birds by the same H. Sloan, only a few miles away from where I found this, which I sold here a month or two