Golden Eye Male, Folk Art Working Decoy with Great Color, North Shore, MA art nouveau shelf this piece was purchased at

this piece was purchased at an estate sale that included an excellent collection of 20th century ceramics from Japan

and that while clearly all by the same sender each is signed slightly differently

late 19th/very early 20th c

so the YEA of year is a bit crunched

Golden Eye Male, Folk Art Working Decoy with Great Color, North Shore, MA art nouveau shelf this piece was purchased atI know this working duck decoy, and its female Golden Eye mate, came from an estate in Newburyport, MA, where, or near where, they were made. I'm no decoy expert and not dedicated to becoming one; I get excited about them for their sculptural qualities, the more primitive the better, and for their surfaces, made better by the years and work they've done. The shape of the dark green painted head on this one, with white cheek, yellow glass eye (on one