Curious Old Carved Spiral Man asian ceramic Paper really is bright white

Paper really is bright white and very clean

but those clothes are long gone and I personally love it bare where all attention turns to the carved and painted/drawn face

like this boat and its crew are in their own little world as they gather their bounty

presumably Mitsi

Curious Old Carved Spiral Man asian ceramic Paper really is bright whiteSuch a curious one! And quite an old one, too. I call him spiral man, and think of him as a combination of human and nautilus shell, the latter also called a logarithmic spiral due to its embodiment of the Fibonacci sequenceand so perhaps this little carving holds the underlying logic of the universe in it! (He doesnt look especially happy about it, though!) 5 5 16"x 13 16" w x 1 1 4" d. Carved of pine with a dark old dry wood patina. Some softening