Stark Black Working Decoy with Marvelously Hooked Old Beak Repair Marlis Schratter vase which I find simultaneously playful

which I find simultaneously playful and poignant

with no splits or notable chips or other issues that I can see

but toward the back are several pages of repeated sentences

and researching them enough to have a general sense of what they are

the black silhouette is under glass

Stark Black Working Decoy with Marvelously Hooked Old Beak Repair Marlis Schratter vase which I find simultaneously playfulThis might not be the decoy for the decoy connoisseur, but for the lover of highly evocative, very singular sculptural objects, I think it is a most fantastic thing! It is very clear, especially from the top of the head, that this working decoy was shot over quite a bit, and I assume its original beak took the worst of the hits. Someone appears to have valued it enough to carve, paint, and attach a new one, transforming its profile and character