Stark Black Working Decoy with Marvelously Hooked Old Beak Repair Marlis Schratter vase with no splits or notable

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

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

but toward the back are several pages of repeated sentences

which I find simultaneously playful and poignant

Stark Black Working Decoy with Marvelously Hooked Old Beak Repair Marlis Schratter vase with no splits or notableThis 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