SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box with a red painted steel

with a red painted steel gnomon (the part that casts a shadow)

I love the very broad shoulders of the figure

light as a feather

With a large ball on top echoing the one inside

The larger measures 10 3/8" t x 5 1/4" w x 6 1/4" d

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box with a red painted steelThis frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,