Fragment of a carved wooden face with an inlaid, socketed eye.

Fragment of a carved wooden face with an inlaid, socketed eye.

Object description: Fragment of a carved wooden face with an inlaid, socketed eye. Inlaid socketed ?porcelain eye with black pupil and white surround. The eye as a whole has a black surround to the upper and lower lip, there is an incised forehead and eyebrow, ?once painted (but no traces left), front very smoothly carved (but nose broken off), back fairly rough, glued into late 19th century black and gold lacquered wooden frame (removed).