Cerulean Warbler by F.F. Gesner, Unusual 1930 Carved Bird on Branch Mounted to Painted Wall Plaque buddhist monks with lid sitting flush

with lid sitting flush

with the yellow more of a mustard

with witty verse of the toilet humor variety and a frog inside

8 3/4" x 6 4/8" x 5/16

Cerulean Warbler by F.F. Gesner, Unusual 1930 Carved Bird on Branch Mounted to Painted Wall Plaque buddhist monks with lid sitting flushThis is less a wall hanging that a whole environment lending our Cerulean Warbler a world of its own. (The branches extend nearly seven inches from the wall, so it is a real perch!) I just immediately fell in love with the bird, really wonderfully carved and painted (better in person), and then quite unusual in my experience to find one with such an elaborate wall mount as this, painted to evoke just the sort of moody, deciduous forest where Cerulean