The Crowded Pool sold The Uncommercial Traveller is a

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens

You could display this piece on a higher shelf to really appreciate the exquisite shape of its smooth dark bowl with tiny bird perched atop

His mastery of these different disciplines fills me with admiration and annoyance in equal measure

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

At the end of the war they surfaced in Berlin in the hands of a liberating Russian soldier and were purchased by the film maker Hans Curlis

The Crowded Pool sold The Uncommercial Traveller is a