Wonderfully Done Papier Mache Head of Man with Large Ears curious objects and this framed piecework block

and this framed piecework block just struck me as a really beautiful thing

and in excellent antique condition

looking a bit possessed and definitely as if he might see into one's soul (and with a soulfulness himself that makes me think of portraits of Lincoln

And then this face

capturing the mix of coziness and majesty that experience entailed

Wonderfully Done Papier Mache Head of Man with Large Ears curious objects and this framed piecework block(Forgive my terrible photos, which do this no justice I find it very difficult to document anything white well at all!) I was delighted to find this guy yesterday at an antique shop in my neck of the woods, and while I don't know that he's antique, he definitely has quite a good number of decades on him. The head is true head sized and was made by someone who certainly knew what they were doing; it has much more the feel and presence of a plaster