Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique carved man but then it was a

but then it was a delight to discover a few small drawings and crayon coloring on some of the geometric shapes scattered across its pages

handmade in Russia (in Moscow I believe) in the early 1960s

Some staining to her top and a little wear to the top of the arms

but I haven't been able to trace the signature

4 1/8" l x 3 1/2" w x 2" t when closed

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique carved man but then it was aIf ever there were an empathetic eagle, I think this may one himsquawking very loudly at me to bring him home! I assume made by a kid in art class, though perhaps by a folk artist with a lot of heart, hes got a brilliant humanity, with these black painted eyes with deep holes for the pupils at their centers, and then exuberantly incised lines for feathers all over. Perfectly painted gold with, rather inexplicably, a slightly metallic blue around his