Sweet Reading Monkey, Hand-carved Soapstone and Marble Bookend Noah Nowdlak Inuit art This is a stunning mid-century

This is a stunning mid-century modern faience vase designed by Inge-Lise Koefoed for Royal Copenhagen as part of their Tenera line designed solely by female Scandinavian designers in the late 1950s-1960s

I think its a pretty great looking and quite handy box

11 1/8” t x 4 9/16” w x 3 3/4” d (at base)

a good old utilitarian steel LEFT sign

or incorporated into something new

Sweet Reading Monkey, Hand-carved Soapstone and Marble Bookend Noah Nowdlak Inuit art This is a stunning mid-centuryA fun one, which I do believe has a good amount of age to, and with a really great face on this monkey. And there are grids carved into the pages of his open book, as if he might be reviewing a ledger of accounts! There seems to be a fairly long tradition of carved and cast monkeys reading books, ranging from all over Asia to Italy and beyond. This oneclearly hand carved as there are carved marks all over himis the folkiest Ive seen among them for