Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl This stencil painted deck (producing

This stencil painted deck (producing the great bleeding edges around the suits) is one of the earliest decks on which the court cards display a "modern rationalised design" - i

and for the  great combo of colors all together

though it looks a bit like a cherry stem

combined with these gloriously long black horsehair bristles

Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl This stencil painted deck (producingI have no idea the story behind this plaster bust, but I think it's wonderful. I love how completely androgynous the figure is, who I take for a young Roman, perhaps Julius Caesar himself, crowned with metal laurel wreath but really I think it could be anyone one wants, and without the crown reminds me a lot of an old Santos figure. The figure's face itself transforms a little, too, depending on point of view, so he, or she, or they, remain always a