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Small wooden sculpture forming pocket empty carved Black Forest (Black Forest *), representing a bear walking with open jaws, XIXth century.
The storage compartment is in good condition.
A note: small break on a foreleg, slight wear and scratches time, see photos.
* The wooden objects carved Black Forest are not from Germany but were manufactured in the Brienz region, Switzerland. The tradition of woodworking is ancestral in the region, people perpetuate the practice of carved wood on the facades of houses, furniture or everyday objects. Great sculptors including the representation of wild animals in their natural environment. In the nineteenth, these naturalistic sculptures of the Black Forest became very fashionable and very popular.
