Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl 4 1/4" x 3 5/8"

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

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

a UNESCO world heritage site filled with thousand year old Viking rune stones and burial mounds

large enough for one dramatic stalk

Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl 4 1/4" x 3 5/8"I 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