Curious Carved Folk Art Face / Mask with Blue Glass Eyes, Signed B. McInnis Bickerton gift for boater with pretty scalloped edge on

with pretty scalloped edge on top and bottom

open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird

but finding it quite an interesting

struck me as a particularly beautiful one

I believe this is Chinese and dates from the 1950s or so

Curious Carved Folk Art Face / Mask with Blue Glass Eyes, Signed B. McInnis Bickerton gift for boater with pretty scalloped edge onLike many I am listing today, this carved face came from the Rockport, MA estate of the late Ellen Gabin, an artist, activist, world traveler, friend and great inspiration to me when I was just get started with Critical Eye Finds. It is signed B. McInnis Bickerton on the back, which has lead me nowhere definitive, but I think it is possible the Bickerton refers to Port Bickerton in Nova Scotia. In some ways seeming to reference Inuit masks, but I