Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads shoe shaped snuff box In his long beak he

In his long beak he holds a little painted wooden fish

I purchased these drawings from a dealer in Romania and was not quite certain what to expect

quite a character

I have not been able to identify the C

others painted on the exterior

Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads shoe shaped snuff box In his long beak heI wish I knew how these two came to be. And yet it seems rather right that they should exist without context, seeming all the more existential, and making me think of Estragon and Vladimir from Waiting for Godot. I believe they were the heads of marionettes, their bodies now long done but the pair definitely seeming as if they've still got dramas they want to enact! With carved and painted heads on dowels that extend to the bottom of their chests,