Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face cast iron dog This is a perfect condition

This is a perfect condition Herend Chinese Kneeling Man porcelain figure

or maybe it was subconscious--or maybe it was a very deliberate visual metaphor

fairly close to the surface

The handle alone is 4 1/2" long and 1" wide at the ferrule

Feels like summer

Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face cast iron dog This is a perfect conditionI think the face painted long ago on this old darner is just fantastic feeling as if hovering in a sort of liminal zone between person and ghost, male and female, happy and sad, etc. And that marvelous old creamy white paint, with a bit of red on the cheeks, with what looks to be a fingerprint preserved for posterity in the dab at right. To my eye just a fabulous thing in all regards, which made my heart skip a beat when I spotted it an instant sense