Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) canivet card drippy glazing is just terrific

drippy glazing is just terrific

There is loss to the brass finish in a few spots--on one side of his tiny head and a couple of spots on the tail (shot at magnification)

) but when I spotted this one

is housed on the frame I found it in (in Great Barrington

Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) canivet card drippy glazing is just terrificThis! One of two leopards today, which alone mean it was a good week. And quite a singular thing this one, made of a piece of root wood, lending it this wonderfully snaking and twisting body. Something appears to have gnawed a bit at its snout at some point, resulting in some loss and roughness there, and the end of one leg shows a little loss too but what remains is so good and so full of life I don't much care! Terrific old paint, black spots