Unusual and Excellent Old Architectural Whimsy With Crosses, Spear, and Balls in Cages carved bug but both drawings are still

but both drawings are still crisp with no apparent smudging

but I've never seen a piece of hairwork jewelry (maybe better to call it hair work lace

concealing/highlighting private/erogenous zones--Louise Bourgeois

11 1/8" t not including tail

are repairs--here pale blue straw repairs to one section of the lip

Unusual and Excellent Old Architectural Whimsy With Crosses, Spear, and Balls in Cages carved bug but both drawings are stillThis is one of three old carved wooden whimsies I purchased together from a dealer in New Hampshire, all listed today, and I think quite likely all done by the same person. This is the most striking and unusual of the three; I've never seen another quite like it, with crosses carved out on all four sides around the bottom end (creating four tiny corner shelves of sorts) and then this excellent, very sharply pointed pyramid just above, which makes