Antique Cigar Box Wood Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and One Leg Lost lake painting including Hamada and Leach

including Hamada and Leach

The bottom still has its red felt attached

Oh how I love this little clay elephant

holding what looks to be a cigar in one hand and pole in the other

it should be stable and content

Antique Cigar Box Wood Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and One Leg Lost lake painting including Hamada and LeachThe more time I spend with this jointed figure, crafted I'd think a century and a few decades ago from cigar box scraps, the more I love it and actually even more so I think for it's missing leg, the absence of which to me at least makes it's gestures feel rather more poignant. I especially love the effect of the old labels on the wood, very worn in some areas and not much in others, making for wonderful painterly surfaces. Plus a great pencil drawn