Sculpted Stoneware Pottery Bust of Literary Looking Gentleman leaded glass Maybe it is just how

Maybe it is just how grandly and dramatically it captures this moment of reunion--one could surely write a novel inspired by it

which is how the plates are marked

Perhaps he was a sailing instructor

who wears the same silver jewelry all of the time

Vintage from the 1980s

Sculpted Stoneware Pottery Bust of Literary Looking Gentleman leaded glass Maybe it is just howI feel like I should recognize this face. Walt Whitman, perhaps? Certainly he looks like a literary sort of fellow; if he had a body, surely he would be holding a book, and maybe a pen, too! As such, a pretty perfect piece for the bookshelf, and plenty heavy to serve as a bookend at the same time. He's quite nicely sculpted of a warm, deep brown coarse stoneware, and hollow on the interior, with felt pads added at some point around the edge. I can't