Woman with Fat Rolled Curls, Wonderful Antique Carved Bust Willem Klinj Division of Forestry

Division of Forestry

The pink-red decoration on this one comes from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack (there were a whole series of these illustrating different "maxims")

or at least some sort of Medieval warrior

and with these almost wave-like patterns of decoration animating the rest of it

All nicely aged and in great structural shape

Woman with Fat Rolled Curls, Wonderful Antique Carved Bust Willem Klinj Division of ForestryPurchased from a New Hampshire based dealer, I am not certain the origins of this beauty, but presume she's European, and certainly quite old (based on the hairstyle I would guess mid 18th c.), with a patch of what I believe are worm holes on the left side of the bust. I love her not quite symmetrical face, which makes this feel much more like a specific portrait than a generalization, and especially the fat, rolled curls of her hairstyle, which make