Fabulous Brazilian Folk Art Dentist at Work Ceramic Sculpture Yosegi including perhaps a low budget

including perhaps a low budget Sci-Fi film

Some ingrained dirt and age toning as pictured (especially on the nine) but really great condition

But seas between us broad have roared

Sheet size is 5 1/8" x 7 3/8"

I believe it might originally have been a gate weight--perhaps for a church gate

Fabulous Brazilian Folk Art Dentist at Work Ceramic Sculpture Yosegi including perhaps a low budgetI know this piece is that it came from the estate of a dentist, who commissioned it specifically, and I am certain that it is by a Brazilian folk artist, possibly Manoel Eudocio. The maker definitely captured the drama of a dentist at work, including the stuff of a patient's nightmares, as red paint spills through her two big front teeth, and dots her nose as well! All of the details on this are great, with nothing forgotten, from sink to spitting