Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads antique battersea enamel tie back it is wonderfully irregular in

it is wonderfully irregular in form as well as surface

It's a bit hard to convey scale through photos but these are quite substantial in volume and weight and especially presence--more full blown sculptures than figurines

Sight holes at the center of the lenses make them wearable

She is emblematic of traditional Oaxacan “barro negro” (black clay) pottery - hand-shaped

" but it looks as if a good many years ago

Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads antique battersea enamel tie back it is wonderfully irregular inI wish I knew how these two came to be. And yet it seems rather right that they should exist without context, seeming all the more existential, and making me think of Estragon and Vladimir from Waiting for Godot. I believe they were the heads of marionettes, their bodies now long done but the pair definitely seeming as if they've still got dramas they want to enact! With carved and painted heads on dowels that extend to the bottom of their chests,