Beautifully Hand-sculpted Terra Cotta Bust basket with glass topple wearing seersucker and pastel colored

wearing seersucker and pastel colored suits--and I think likely have a proper English garden

8 1/2" x 6 7/8"

I haven't been able to determine the date of the book

I love that this smiling

and are likely a mixed pair--one is a bit grayer in tone and the other flecked a bit more brown--but they are of the same size

Beautifully Hand-sculpted Terra Cotta Bust basket with glass topple wearing seersucker and pastel coloredTotal love at first sight with this one, hand sculpted of terra cotta and fabulous all the way around, revealing different aspects of itself gradually. I find it quite elusive; I am not certain if representing a man or a woman, with the fantastically sculptural hair perhaps suggesting the latter, but the face looking somewhat more masculine to me, perhaps Latino. In any case, what a striking, strong face, with the slight cock of the head, wide open