Hands at Rest, Vintage Clay Sculpture nesting egg 5 3/8" long

5 3/8" long

allowing a couple of pieces of grass to spring loose (see photos)

Each measures approximately 5 1/2" diameter x 7/8" tall

I'd guess 1930s or 40s

Cincinnati in 1923

Hands at Rest, Vintage Clay Sculpture nesting egg 5 3/8" longFun, and pretty excellent as a tabletop sculpture, which can be flipped to show either way, giving one or the other the upper hand! And I do like to think of these as the hands of two different people, engaged in an an ongoing negotiation which makes me wish there were a whole series of these with the hands arranged in different gestures and postures with this pair (one connected piece) seeming to signify 'calm down' to me! Made of clay by molding