Cerulean Warbler by F.F. Gesner, Unusual 1930 Carved Bird on Branch Mounted to Painted Wall Plaque Washington DC Framed: 7 1/4 x 8

Framed: 7 1/4 x 8 1/16

looking both keen and serene

who signed and dated this in 1889

which is reminiscent of the figural stoppers of Erik Hoglund (mid-century Swedish)

8 3/4 x 5 x 1 1/4

Cerulean Warbler by F.F. Gesner, Unusual 1930 Carved Bird on Branch Mounted to Painted Wall Plaque Washington DC Framed: 7 1/4 x 8This 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