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outline, and while some difficulty might be encountered in associating it with a bird, it is nevertheless pleasing to look at and highly ornamental, and as we hold under the evidence that it is the original production of a professional sculptor...we sustain the protest and find that it is entitled to free entry."

(insert on what that has meant--vis-a-vis other progressive opinions such as Judge Bland's)

The result of this decision has led to such amusing situations as one where a highly abstract Calder mobile of floral petals is sensibly admissable as a work of art, [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] a tediously realistic miniature [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] ship which Judge Cline [[strikethough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ly found to be "conceived, designed and wrought by a professional artist" was not a "sculpture" because it did not represent"a sculptor's conception of any object in nature." Such works of art, which are not "sculptures," incidentally, must be entered under Paragraph 1547 of the Tariff Act concerning "works of art not specially provided for"--known as NSPF by the examiners--and as such dutiable at 20 percentum ad valorem. 

Uncle Sam allows painters more freedom of expression than sculptors, for they are not limited to representing human or animal forms in order to have created "a painting." But [[strikethrough]] their pitfall [[/strikethrough]] they meet their Waterloo in the matter of materials. Despite the fact that art historians often designate the great