Carved Swan Chair Arms, A Pair antique animal illustration I have not found another

I have not found another like it out there

Card: 6 3/8” x 5 3/8”

Pure love when I dug this drawing out from near the bottom of an overstuffed box filled with old magazine and a few other drawings by young Richard Page Thurton

criss-crossing the leather strip at the other

Carved Swan Chair Arms, A Pair antique animal illustration I have not found anotherI found these hanging side by side on a wall and they just struck me as beautiful things to display that way the long necks of the swans together forming an upside down heart with front sides facing. These were once the arms of a chair, and a fun chair it must have been. I am pretty certain they were hard carved, as there is variation among the faces, and a little surface roughness on the inside of the curves of the necks. My photos of these are not