Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper brass calendar I've long been marveling at

I've long been marveling at wooden whimsy chains carved from one piece of wood

I have not touched the wood

The handle measures about 6" long and 1 1/8" in diameter at widest

Based on other ginger jars to which it bears closest resemblance

but I'm also trying to learn a bit about what they are and do along the way

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper brass calendar I've long been marveling atI am not quite sure why I find this drawing painting so satisfying, but I do, totally. It feels completely resolved, and rather like it always existed, effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper, which, scuffed and smudged, feels like its been around forever too. I believe it is actually a portrait of the late artist and longtime art professor Leon Hovsepian of Worchester, MA, at whose estate sale I purchased it; perhaps