Pair of Vintage Swiss Wooden Cutout Animals in the Manner of Antonio Vitali linen textile with a fabulous all-over triangular

with a fabulous all-over triangular relief pattern and drippy green and salmon-colored glaze over cream slip

used for sprinkling cinnamon or sugar on muffins

So when I spotted this and one other of her prints at an antiques shop recently

maybe made in Japan

leather club chairs and maybe a fireplace ( wafting cigar smoke

Pair of Vintage Swiss Wooden Cutout Animals in the Manner of Antonio Vitali linen textile with a fabulous all-over triangularThese wooden animals dogs, I'd think? feel so familiar, but I haven't been able to figure out their maker. Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings), and there is a Made in Switzerland sticker on the underside. At any rate, I think they make a pretty great modernist pair to sit on a shelf somewhere and also indestructible