Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple dowry basket and researching them enough to

and researching them enough to have a general sense of what they are

--to begin with

but structurally just fine

rendered in that amazing Persian blue with green belly and wings

Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple dowry basket and researching them enough toI thought about selling these two individually, but as I photographed them realized they really are a couple (he's taller, she's wider) so thought best to keep them together, including for the fact that they're plenty large and heavy to function as bookends (or doorstops for that matter; they're 2+ lbs each.) I purchased them from a seller who found them at an estate sale in Alabama but don't know who made them; they're carved of solid wood, thickly