A Decorative Early 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Male Ancestor Figure sub-Antiques making for a spectacular celebration

making for a spectacular celebration of the eccentricity of classic Chinese visual culture

and it was he who first patent registered the idea of reflective glass beads for advertising signs and road signage in 1927

Walter Potter was born in 1835 and began to experiment with taxidermy by the age of 15

it can be transported easily and was of course designed to roll up in the classroom

a blue shade reminiscent of the 1830s

A Decorative Early 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Male Ancestor Figure sub-Antiques making for a spectacular celebrationOrigin: Moroccan Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 Height: 22 inches Width: 6. 5 inches Depth: 5. 5 inches (all at maximum) The ceremonial carved and disproportionate male figure, standing with an oversize Mohican head, painted with polychrome highlights in rust, ebony and ivory, the figure perched on a stylised wooden log. The figure does show its age, (which is actually quite nice) there is some damage (cracking) to