Vintage Wooden Cow Sculpture, Charcoal Blue

The Vintage Carved Wooden Cow Sculpture is a characterful folk-art figure from the Rajasthani tradition of painted animals, made for devotional displays and for the festivals around Krishna's birth, when cows, horses and birds were set out in shrines and ceremonial arrangements. Traces of faded blue paint remain across the body, neck and legs, emerging through the deep brown wood in fragments. The surface is marked by fine cracks, worn edges, abrasions and areas of exposed timber, part of the appeal of an object that has travelled beyond its first life.

In the contemporary home, the sculpture works beautifully on a console, bookshelf or low display plinth, either alone or alongside other carved wooden and stone objects, in a setting that appreciates storied objects.

Each piece is one of a kind. Size, colour and markings vary from piece to piece. Photographs are close, but the piece may look slightly different in person and from different angles. Cracks, marks and tonal variation are part of the original piece and add to the beauty of it.