SOLD Fantastically Weathered Antique Carved Santos with Intense White Glass Gaze 1911 postcard 12 1/4" span

12 1/4" span

The pictures refer to Greek gods

They come in their original green box with cardboard sleeve

Structurally it is in very good shape

gesturing as if delivering a secret signal

SOLD Fantastically Weathered Antique Carved Santos with Intense White Glass Gaze 1911 postcard 12 1/4" spanA santos possessed with the spirit if I ever saw one! Those unpainted (or once painted but with the paint completely worn away) white glass eyes completely make him for me so intense, looking absolutely as if having a vision, eyes rolled to the back of his head. And the erosion to his face, nose flattened and pinkish paint worn away in spots revealing the wood underneath, just add to the effect. His armlessness and posture and the shape of the collar