Portrait of a Man, Sensitive and Ever Shifting Large Black Glazed Red Clay Head antique wooden palette The entries are numbered to

The entries are numbered to correspond to days of the month

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

I do think his maker did a pretty great job capturing the spirit of a frog

bringing it all together and making it pop

with some paint loss along the edges and on the reverse

Portrait of a Man, Sensitive and Ever Shifting Large Black Glazed Red Clay Head antique wooden palette The entries are numbered toI 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,