Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl and any loose seams were

and any loose seams were lovingly mended long ago--she's super solid and sound

This stencil painted deck (producing the great bleeding edges around the suits) is one of the earliest decks on which the court cards display a "modern rationalised design" - i

I'm always on the hunt for interesting whimsies carved from one piece of wood

combined with these gloriously long black horsehair bristles

4 1/4" x 3 5/8" on wove

Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl and any loose seams wereI have no idea the story behind this plaster bust, but I think it's wonderful. I love how completely androgynous the figure is, who I take for a young Roman, perhaps Julius Caesar himself, crowned with metal laurel wreath but really I think it could be anyone one wants, and without the crown reminds me a lot of an old Santos figure. The figure's face itself transforms a little, too, depending on point of view, so he, or she, or they, remain always a