Sculpted Stoneware Pottery Bust of Literary Looking Gentleman design blocks presumed mid-century

presumed mid-century

The winder for the music box is on the bottom and works great

One finds a variety of wooden folk houses and structures painted on wood blocks as these are

and are both are really stunning

2 3/4" tall x 1 1/2" wide x 1 1/4" deep

Sculpted Stoneware Pottery Bust of Literary Looking Gentleman design blocks presumed mid-centuryI 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