Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) Japanese book from the slightly drooping rose

from the slightly drooping rose at its center to the buoyant lilac that you can just about smell

Sewn onto the linen at lower left is a piece of ruled paper signed by an Emma Merkesell

and even better when those environs are filled with books and art objects

and I believe vintage rather than antique

if I had to guess

Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) Japanese book from the slightly drooping roseI purchased this one at Rhinebeck from a dealer who found it in an antiques shop in Florida and knew nothing about it. I look at a fair number of Inuit stone carvings, but rarely come across one in this glorious serpentine green stone, which looks like a sort of mottled Jade, and here, polished to a high finish, is just gorgeous. Unsigned, but I have some notion it may be the work of Henry Evaluardjuk (1923 2007), Iqaluit, of Frobisher Bay, Canada