Thai Wood Deer

Head down, one foreleg forward, entirely uninterested in you.

This wooden deer comes from Thailand and dates to the late 19th or early 20th century. It is Tenasserim pine wood. Deer appear often in Thai Buddhist art, recalling the deer park where the Buddha is said to have given his first sermon, though figures like this one may also have served as decoration. The pale wood shows long cracks and checks along the body. The neck stretches down toward a rough mound base, with a craggy ridge along its top. Thirty-eight and a half inches high and thirty-five wide.

The grass must have been very good.