Sweetly Ferocious Wooden Folk Art Leopard bronze sculpture of surfer missing its handles

missing its handles

Both measure 4 3/4" x 3 9/16" and are in very good shape

I believe this is a young one

on the way to a house call

some tearing around the edges of pages

Sweetly Ferocious Wooden Folk Art Leopard bronze sculpture of surfer missing its handlesHard to refuse happiness inducing creatures, which this guy, for me at least, is 100%. Such a great face, with these huge yellow eyes and wide open, fanged mouth, plus very gestural white whiskers and intensively painted spots all over. Nicely crude in execution, too, with irregularly shaped head and ears and a rectangle nailed on top of the body for a tail. Plus flowers painted all over the blue base. Quite a character, and pretty fabulous! 6 3 4" l