Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face antique copper vessel and then the "push" button

and then the "push" button on the far right side causes the drawer to pop open with a most satisfying ding

A subtle carving

several editions of which were produced

and he’ll sit but not stand on his own

maybe some piece of scrap metal

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face antique copper vessel and then the "push" buttonI don't know the origins of this one, but clearly it is quite old, the wood worn very smooth, and with some remnants of a sort of bittersweet paint visible on both the head and the body. The carving of the lower body suggests it might once have slide inside of something else, or perhaps was wrapped in cloth perhaps a fertility fetish figure of sorts. Whatever the case, to my eye it doesn't get much better than that very primitively carved face. And