Folk Art Felix with Excellent (Fried Eggs!) Face vintage bronze with a really terrific presence

with a really terrific presence

and delicate little leaflets on branching stems

and with at least two layers of paint on it

8 stacked chip carved layers on the pocket

Paper is a heavy weight wove

Folk Art Felix with Excellent (Fried Eggs!) Face vintage bronze with a really terrific presenceJust about the best face I think I've ever seen on a folk art Felix, which I can't look at without thinking of a plate of fried eggs! Found in New Hampshire, 1940s or so I'd think, and likely once with a door stop attached, but that, and the left side of his base, are gone. It doesn't much bother me (and one could easily repaint the side edge black) since all eyes are on those eyes and mouth! 11 1 8" t x 4 3 8" w x 1 2" d. Apart from the loss at left