Artist Made Cast Bronze Breasts! illustrative I've got a soft spot

I've got a soft spot for antique shoe-shaped snuff boxes

carved out of (into

Another great turned wooden box

what I love about this is the primitiveness of these carved figures

Artist Made Cast Bronze Breasts! illustrative I've got a soft spotI found this (these!) in the Hudson River Valley, and know from the dealer's note that they came from the estate of an area artist, but I don't know that artist's name. With the bar connecting them across the top (which makes for easy hanging), the first thing I thought when I saw them was of old optometrist signs in the form of spectacles, which has the great effect of conflating the nipples here with the pupils of the eye and imparts the sense that