Vintage Wooden Cow Sculpture on Timber Mount

The Vintage Wooden Cow Sculpture on Timber Mount is a distinctive carved piece, 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. The figure is worked directly into a substantial wooden base, suggesting that it may once have formed part of a larger architectural fragment of a Rajasthani haveli. Its weathered surface, softened edges and fine cracks carry the marks of time and handling, part of the appeal of an object that has travelled beyond its first life.

In the contemporary home, it works beautifully on a console, bookshelf or low display plinth, alone or alongside other carved wooden and stone 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.