Featured Has Anyone Seen These Bookends Before? Crying Baby? Buddha? God? w/Rock of all Nations

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  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found these today at a local thrift store & can not find another pair like them! (it's partly why I bought them!)
    Has anyone seen these before? They are metal? Or bronze(?) - is that why the green in the 1 head?
    It has "Rock of All Nations" on bottom front which makes me wonder if crying baby is some deity?
    ANY information would be appreciated.

    BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 1AA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 2AA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 4AA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 4AAA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 4BAA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 5AA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 5AA.JPG
    BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 6AA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 7AA.JPG
     
  2. elarnia

    elarnia SIWL

    Dayton Daily News 2 Sept 1923 Sunday Arts Section
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    In paragraph 3 "(Michel) Jacobs also donates a work in sculpture "Rock of all Nations", exemplified in a bronze head of a baby."

    I suspect this is the Canadian-born sculptor and painter Michel Jacobs (1877-1958) who wrote The Art of Colour. "Ask Art" has a bio on him. Can't find any pictures of his sculptures.
     
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  3. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

  4. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    You guys are incredible - thank you!
    I will look for signature but I didn't notice before (maybe because I looked at edge, bottom - reg spots to find one)
    So They are not a pair of book-ends?
     
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  5. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    What is that loss/chip on top?
     
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  6. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Yours look like bookends to me but from the same statue I think.
     
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  7. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found the 1914 & a copyright symbol - and then I think it's his initials! (I cam see a J - something - & a M, but it's faint.

    BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 9A_AA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 9A_AAA.JPG BOOK ENDS BABY FACE ROCK OF ALL AGES 9AA.JPG
     
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