Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane JJ P (once) clear glaze over most

(once) clear glaze over most of the body

and and a large collection of work by Alexander Calder

just an honest and handsome little piece

focusing on the presentation of illusions--like this card trick--that he had devised

In the course of discovering his great nimbleness as I was photographing him

Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane JJ P (once) clear glaze over mostCertainly this old guy once sat on a sulky behind a horse as part of a fine antique weathervane, I'd guess early 20th century. The rest of it may live on somewhere else, and I'd guess he once had arms, too, though there is really no sign of welding along his shoulders, so perhaps he was never finished? At any rate, I rather love him now just as he is, a mix of elegant and awkward, forever holding this funny posture, which keeps making me think of him