Cast Iron Art Nouveau Bookend with Super Folky Face slag glass sculpture or a pendulum

or a pendulum

and this done-up beauty

the fraktur style lettering of the first half (through to the M

It would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawings—dated 1876—if it were buried in a stack

brittle and torn but still holding together

Cast Iron Art Nouveau Bookend with Super Folky Face slag glass sculpture or a pendulumWhat I love about this old art nouveau bookend is the super folky (one might say homely) face on this a nude, completely endearing her to me even as it somewhat undermines her seductive pose. I don't believe this was intentional, but I think it makes this a marvelously human, empathetic thing. Love. 6" t x 4 1 4" w x 2 3 4" d and heavy. 1920s I believe, and in good condition, with loss to what I believe was a bronzed finish, all the good I think.