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<p>[QUOTE="Boring Mysteries, post: 9435270, member: 80794"]It certainly seems like folk art, I wonder whether the artist got lazy before finishing the bottom half? or it broke off and was replaced with something someone thought would be sightly enough... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OP, I know you say the features don't look African American to you, but this strikes me as somewhat of a smoking gun...being modeled after Joe Louis would also fit with the likely age of the piece if it's an ivory carved figurine - early 20th century?</p><p><br /></p><p>And I still think chess piece is a good guess even if it would be a quite large one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps it was conceived to be kind of a bust style statue, but due to the necessity of including the arms - showing a boxer - it resulted in the somewhat awkward half-man half-pedestal centaur being.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Boring Mysteries, post: 9435270, member: 80794"]It certainly seems like folk art, I wonder whether the artist got lazy before finishing the bottom half? or it broke off and was replaced with something someone thought would be sightly enough... :playful: OP, I know you say the features don't look African American to you, but this strikes me as somewhat of a smoking gun...being modeled after Joe Louis would also fit with the likely age of the piece if it's an ivory carved figurine - early 20th century? And I still think chess piece is a good guess even if it would be a quite large one. Perhaps it was conceived to be kind of a bust style statue, but due to the necessity of including the arms - showing a boxer - it resulted in the somewhat awkward half-man half-pedestal centaur being.[/QUOTE]
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