Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique Japanese Signed at lower right

Signed at lower right

with a little paint loss and roughness on the edge of the ear

Box 6 3/4" square by 1 1/4" tall

Size varies slightly but approx 4 1/4" l x 4 1/2" w x 3/4" d (1 1/16" including nail

Good placed where is can be enjoyed from a variety of angles

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique Japanese Signed at lower rightIf 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