Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure hanging pin 5 1/4" across with arms

5 1/4" across with arms outstretched

I just fell in love with the aesthetics of it

When I found this little clay fertility doll I had no idea quite what she was or where she came from

charmingly caricaturing a variety of couples

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Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure hanging pin 5 1/4" across with armsThis is a fairly small piece just shy of 6 inches in. diameter but what a lot of is packed into those inches, and what a marvelously strange thing! I really love things that are both intensely of their medium and also entirely transcend it, which I feel is the case with this piece, applying a great command of the craft to articulating a very singular vision. The figure to me has a bit of the feel of Adam in the Garden of Eden, falling from grace, or