Lovely Vintage Carved Head with Crown, Presumed St. Jadwiga of Poland vintage wooden color cubes or perhaps even birds

or perhaps even birds

this one is signed three times on the underside of its belly

Changes in light even as I photographed the slide make it show lighter or darker

there is one spot of skipped glaze near the lip on one side

Lovely Vintage Carved Head with Crown, Presumed St. Jadwiga of Poland vintage wooden color cubes or perhaps even birdsNot a very old carving, but a pretty terrific one I think, looking rather like a ship's figurehead in her gold decorated crown, and wearing the sort of brave expression that seems poised to guide many a ship through a storm! Carved into the back, along with a signature, is the location of Krakow, Poland, which, together with the crown, makes me pretty sure this is meant to be Jadwiga, the much venerated first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland,