Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique carved man 4 1/8" l x 3

4 1/8" l x 3 1/2" w x 2" t when closed

a "titan of real  estate in Boston for six decades" who

It is truly a beautiful object

but I haven't been able to trace the signature

Dated 1887 at upper right

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique carved man 4 1/8" l x 3If ever there were an empathetic eagle, I think this may one himsquawking very loudly at me to bring him home! I assume made by a kid in art class, though perhaps by a folk artist with a lot of heart, hes got a brilliant humanity, with these black painted eyes with deep holes for the pupils at their centers, and then exuberantly incised lines for feathers all over. Perfectly painted gold with, rather inexplicably, a slightly metallic blue around his