Industrial Vintage Wooden Mold danish ceramic like green beans

like green beans

It measures 8

but I think it is a small masterpiece

overflowing with a bounty of what appears to be fruit

Industrial Vintage Wooden Mold danish ceramic like green beansIn these parts, one finds a fair number of old industrial wooden molds. I love the silhouette and interplay of parts on this one, the contrast between finished dark wood and and black painted wood, and the dynamism of the whole thing, evoking planes, trains, machines, movement. I think it probably dates to the 1940s or so and came from a factory in Massachusetts or New Hamphire. Set it on a shelf or attach a hook to the back and hang it on the wall.