Curious Old Carved Spiral Man kewpie but making no real sense

but making no real sense otherwise

with a really nice presence

framed in two slightly imperfect black ink squares and captioned with handwritten text on either side asking 'Lequel est mon portrait

the black silhouette is under glass

or from the ceiling

Curious Old Carved Spiral Man kewpie but making no real senseSuch a curious one! And quite an old one, too. I call him spiral man, and think of him as a combination of human and nautilus shell, the latter also called a logarithmic spiral due to its embodiment of the Fibonacci sequenceand so perhaps this little carving holds the underlying logic of the universe in it! (He doesnt look especially happy about it, though!) 5 5 16"x 13 16" w x 1 1 4" d. Carved of pine with a dark old dry wood patina. Some softening