French Antique Guessing Game

 

French Antique Guessing Game

 

French Antique Guessing Game:

What is it?

Do you know?

My friend Mari and her daughter Shelby are visiting us from Texas.  

As we were having dinner the wooden chicken on the table became part of our conversation. Mari teased to her daughter, "Corey has a story on everything in her home. A history lesson of sorts. Though I do not remember the story of the chicken?"

I asked them if they knew what it was used for…

The chicken or the egg?

Hence a story began… 

 

French Antique Guessing Game

 

 

I teased that if they didn't guess what it was, dessert wouldn't be served,

After a thousand wrong guesses, honestly a thousand, I gave them dessert since they came all the way from Texas, and decided to ask you.

Do you know what this hunk of wood, carved into a chicken was used for?

 

French Antique Guessing Game

 

The wooden chicken is old,

but it isn't French.

Though it was brought over with many "others" and sold at the international antique market in Avignon fifteen or so years ago.

I bought another one, a carved wooden cow, for my mother.

 

French Antique Guessing Game

 

 

Take a guess in the comment section. The first one to guess it correctly will win a little prize, the one with the most creative answer will also win a prize.

(It is not a roach… for those of you who read my blog you know why I am saying this… R. F. D.)

 

 

French Antique Guessing Game

 

 

I am sooooooooooo happy to see Mari again and to finally meet her lovely daughter!

Tomorrow I will also pick a random winner for the book giveaway.

 

Happy Guessing!!



Comments

34 responses to “French Antique Guessing Game”

  1. Susan young

    Rooftop decoration

  2. Janet with Eiffel

    Place her in the shop window
    to indicate what is being sold inside.
    Or……keep her on the kitchen table
    for guessing games and you will never
    have to serve dessert again!

  3. jeannine

    to confuse old roosters with too much lovin on their minds????

  4. To fake a real hen who would be setting on her eggs.(encouraging them to hatch)

  5. I think it is a weight of some sort. Actually I have heard of the fake chicken trick so I thought it might be that…but someone already said it. Also, I don’t think a fake cow would work:) Ok, so I’m going with a weight. It was a weight of some sort. Oh, and by the way, what was dessert?:)

  6. martina

    Is it perhaps a mold used with chocolate at Easter time? That would be a whopping big Easter chocolate hen! It looks like it has a seam in the middle.

  7. LeighNZ

    It’s a chicken decoy.

  8. Diogenes

    I have n o idea what this might be, other than a decorative chicken. May we have a clue?

  9. This chicken was to serve as a model for her sister-chickens to sit and lay eggs.
    I want that cookbook!

  10. One day Miss Henny was clucking through the woods when a tree fairy spied her and fell in love. “I will make you my wife!” he cried, “but not like that.” With a flick of his wand she was turned into his immortal wooden wife and they lived happily ever after (until she was stolen and whisked off to be sold in a brocante). 🙂
    It is Miss Henny on your table (and she is very fond of dessert)!
    Heather

  11. Netsuke? Does it have holes in the bottom? Lol

  12. Could it be a doorstop?

  13. becky up a hill

    Its a decoy to lure Chicken Hawks into the farmer’s site. Not a decoy to lure other chickens to get broody, but one that is hawk proof.

  14. Violet Cadburry

    It’s a chicken mannequin for Cluck Cluck Designs, an old haute couture design firm that specialized in chicken clothing. Marie Antoinette was rumored to have dressed her chickens in velvet and brocade, thus setting the bar for other stupid wealthy royalty. And you though those rooster combs in 18th century paintings really were real. Cluck cluck.

  15. Violet Cadburry

    And, I know it is not a roach, but it could be a roach clip for real large handed stoner.

  16. Perhaps a decoy chicken to mother the eggs in the nest when the hen had died or was incapable of sitting on them .

  17. Paper machè mold?

  18. For the porch to scrape the mud off your shoes/boots?

  19. These wooden animals come from Asia. Restaurants put them in their windows to show what kind of meat they serve. Besides chickens and cows, there also dogs, snakes, crickets, spiders, rats and some others available. Bon appetit!

  20. NancyO.

    Wooden chickens lay wooden eggs. One can then use the wooden eggs for display in the kitchen.
    🙂

  21. It’s the French symbol for fertility. I bought one years ago in Canada..

  22. Jackie B

    It’s a weight used somehow on windmills.

  23. Placed in your front window you are telling all the neighborhood chickens that they are safe to wander about through your gardens and yard, for in your vegetarian home no meat is served.

  24. It’s a papier mache mold probably from the Philippines

  25. It is a decoy to place in the nesting boxes. The real hens see it & think they should be in a nest sitting on eggs too.

  26. I have NO IDEA……………..just saying HI!

  27. Door stop?

  28. Laurie SF

    A chocolate mold for the decadently decorated windows at Easter?

  29. Big Red Hen would use the wooden chicken as a stand-in every now and then, when she decided to call it a day and head off into downtown San Francisco with the French Fox. She’d dance at the disco into the wee hours of the morning and slip back onto her nest just as the chanticleer would start to crow (conveniently with eyes closed, as we all know).

  30. Is it a paper maiche mold?

  31. India’s rituals of having animals on their altars??

  32. The wooden roach’s friend?

  33. Rae Lange

    it’s a “chicky” bank for saving all your ‘egg’ money!

  34. Jeanne Marks

    I think the hen is used to hold napkine in place on the table.

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