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Description
11" (28 cm.) One piece carved wooden head and torso portraying a noble black traveler with
deeply sculpted black hair,sculpted facial features in realistic manner,brown painted eyes,broad
nose,full lips,strong jaw line,all-wooden limbs with dowel jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips and
knees,painted black boots. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: early 19th century,Tyrol
(Austria/Germany). Value Points: superb original condition of the artfully carved figure,dowel-
jointed limbs,very lavish and well preserved original silk and velvet costume with metallic
threads. The figure was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1928.