Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle With the hair the figure

With the hair the figure looks female to me

I know they were found at an estate in South Carolina

It is the work of Conrad Fehn (b

presently with a year round population of a dozen or so

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle With the hair the figureI purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration