SOLD Fantastically Weathered Antique Carved Santos with Intense White Glass Gaze sampler with house and alphabets but think it is interesting

but think it is interesting to know that there were two famous Jack Dempsey boxers--this first Jack Dempsey (51-4 in his career with 11 draws and aptly nicknamed ‘Nonpareil

in significant part as a means for sculptors to show off their skills

Samuel Gifford's from 1832

under glass: 13 1/2" x 10 3/4"

SOLD Fantastically Weathered Antique Carved Santos with Intense White Glass Gaze sampler with house and alphabets but think it is interestingA santos possessed with the spirit if I ever saw one! Those unpainted (or once painted but with the paint completely worn away) white glass eyes completely make him for me so intense, looking absolutely as if having a vision, eyes rolled to the back of his head. And the erosion to his face, nose flattened and pinkish paint worn away in spots revealing the wood underneath, just add to the effect. His armlessness and posture and the shape of the collar