'Adorable,' The Swamp Fairy-Queen's Steed

Dimensions ~ 15.5" tall x 13" deep x 10" wide (At the base). **Archival sealed Bronze. Will be shipped insured and professionally packaged.

~ The Story* ~


(*Here are quotes from the Wax-Original-album that appears on my Facebook Page (Michael Angell Fine Arts) in order to give you some background 'biography' on this sculpture in most all of its attributes.)

Adorable's (the toad) Charm ~ That's a shoe around her neck: it was a gift from a Gnome, a One-off from his shop that Adorable took a liking to. It's magical of course; when put down it will walk back to the Gnome-village, leading the way no matter where Adorable is. There in front is four Cliff-fairy houses and the top of a chimney sticking through the turtle shell; the Cliff-fairy's use it to serendipitously smoke foodstuffs. The round 'balls' are Adorable's toad-eggs, just recently laid. The U-shaped item in the middle (between her left foreleg and hind leg) is a magical Fairy-implement, ancient and discarded in the swamp. To the left can be seen parts of the Cliff-fairy's settlement. The tall building in front is a kind of storage silo and residence, hence the chimney. The building to the left that has a funnel-shaped roof catches rainwater and stores it in an underground chamber. You can see waves lapping the shore in the middle and to the left.

The head sticking up on the rear top-middle- side via the saddle is an artifact the Queen found on her rounds in South America. If you look closely you can make out a severed bird-head stuck in behind some mushrooms, a ingredient she'll sell in the market or trade that she also found discarded in the Land of the Trolls; she has several of these exotic bird-heads tucked in her saddle. The mushrooms are living beings, along for the ride and to keep the Swamp-Queen company on long expeditions; she also plants them (among other duties), fostering the birth of new swamps throughout multiple Fairy-worlds and Earth-kingdoms. Adorable's hind feet rest on square pads atop large double-vertebrae, surrounded by her newly laid eggs and more mushrooms. The long skull at the bottom (Belonging to a prehistoric time via Fairy World) was the once headdress of the Keeper of Eternity (A previous sculpture), discarded for a new gift presented to her by a master-craftsman and admirer (another story).

Most fairies do not sell or store items away, they simply put them down in the forest or meadows for others to find or not. Nothing is thrown away in the Fairy World; everything that's set down is considered a belonging to everyone. If a fairy touches an item it immediately becomes his or her property, unless of course its been lost, in which case the object will glow bright orange with the fairy's fingerprints in the dark, revealing the owner's identity to any who might find the object. If it's a fairy who does not have fingerprints or fingers, the object will speak the fairy name if asked or simply stay put, un-liftable from the ground. Both toad and Fairy-queen are equals. The Magic teapot and storage-jar are to the left of the saddle. The Swamp-fairy's magic book is to the far right and another severed bird head to the book's left end. The skull in the center is another emblem, the Swamp-fairy's homeland insignia/totem, elaborately integrated and laced within Adorable's Royal saddle, crafted by a High Elven leathersmith of the Greenlands of Earth's Caucasus region. And of course you can see Adorable's beautiful toad-bumps!

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