Old, Charming Handmade Kewpie (?) Doorstop Nunamiut Is it us that he

Is it us that he is escaping

Great on the desk or anywhere

There is a little crazing to the shiny areas of glaze and one small black ink mark which I have not tried to remove but it might scrub away

or other little odds and ends

though a but more apparent on the lighter colored side

Old, Charming Handmade Kewpie (?) Doorstop Nunamiut Is it us that heThere are so many great old handmade wooden doorstops out there, which I rarely resist grabbing when I see them, but this I believe is an especially old one, and the first I have seen featuring this character. (Plenty of cats, dogs and dutch children, but I can't find another anywhere with this one). I believe it is likely a very early iteration of the kewpie, which first gained popularity as comic strip characters invented and drawn by NYC based