Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses carved sculpture These I think are renderings

These I think are renderings of pre- or just hatched snakes of some sort

with rays of light lines all around it

but no one ever seems to know anything about them

likely where a mirror once sat

Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses carved sculpture These I think are renderingsA charmer of an old carving, with this dapper fellow looking to me as if about to accept an important award, perhaps a Pulitzer, or an Oscar, or the Nobel Prize! As such, he seems especially good company to me and one with whom I might share all of my best ideas! Really wonderfully done, those excellent spectacles best of all, with blue eyes behind them and a terrifically painterly face. 4 7 16" t x 1 1 2" w x 1" d and in excellent condition, 1940s or