Old Cast Concrete Arm Fragment antique naive painting with a terrific dark stain

with a terrific dark stain on it

with some alligator-ing to the black paint and scattered scuffs and scrapes but still looks bright and sharp

Box measures 6 1/2" l x 4" w x 1 7/8" t

--on the bottom in a calligraphic manner that I have not been able to decipher

Old Cast Concrete Arm Fragment antique naive painting with a terrific dark stainI have to think this concrete arm is a remnant of an outdoor statue, and certainly the arm once held something perhaps a staff, or a basket or ring, or who knows what. I love the evocative recess left in its absence, and the iron post revealed at the other end, and everything in between! All sorts of interesting contexts for this I think, and I do believe with a little hanging hardware one could figure out how to mount it on the wall. 11 1 2" l x 3 1