SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box The larger measures 10 3/8"

The larger measures 10 3/8" t x 5 1/4" w x 6 1/4" d

so this was an early framing of what has since become an iconic feature of a building renowned as a architectural mastepiece

but among them this charming and clever studio pottery example from the 20th century

My favorite of all is another short list at the back of the notebook

I love the very broad shoulders of the figure

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box The larger measures 10 3/8"This frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,