Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf clip earrings probably 1920s-40s)

probably 1920s-40s)

I find the palette extraordinary

stylized star

perfectly in sync with the surface decoration

2 1/2" l x 1 1/2" in diameter

Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf clip earrings probably 1920s-40s)I haven't totally figured out why the image of a Dutch boy in this basic pose was so popular in the earlyish 20th century, but I've had several postcards in the shop featuring the same basic figure, and then here he was again on this cutout. What I really love about each, though, are the specific details and adaptations applied by the maker this one, bundled up in scarf and hat and with hands buried in pockets, I have to think was made sometime in the