Portrait of a Man, Sensitive and Ever Shifting Large Black Glazed Red Clay Head antique wooden palette and a couple of palm

and a couple of palm trees rising from the green landscape below

with 2 15/16" x 4 3/8" visible from the front side

Note the very sweet figure drawn in the window and little shoot to the left just below him

(Source: Toby Herbst Antiques

assertiveness

Portrait of a Man, Sensitive and Ever Shifting Large Black Glazed Red Clay Head antique wooden palette and a couple of palmI found this one at one of my very favorite antique shops in Pennsylvania, but don't know any more of its origins than that. Striking from a distance, but what I really love about this is how much it changes from every angle, including seeming to morph from a portrait of a young man from one view to that of a much older and wiser one from another. Full of life and depth it feels to me, and a rich one to live with. Unsigned, sculpted of red clay,