Batter and Catcher Watching Ball (or UFO!), Transcendent Old Snapshot Photo occupied Japan school book Or treat it as a

Or treat it as a sculpture

And though he is frowning

with an arrow descending from one of the clouds

though there are a fair number of small gilded cast bronze animals out there-- Japanese and Chinese

approximately 10 inches at longest (from front end of base to tip of extended back leg) and 3 inches across

Batter and Catcher Watching Ball (or UFO!), Transcendent Old Snapshot Photo occupied Japan school book Or treat it as aI really really love this little snapshot. For me at least, it took a few moments to figure out that it is a catcher's mask and glove in the hands of the child at center, and the very end of a bat in the hand of the boy in the foreground, and so it must be a ball in the air that their eyes are following, though they appear to be looking in somewhat different directions for it! But between the framing and the light, and their faces and gestures and