Charming 19th C. Turned Leg Cricket Stool with Surprise Bird Silhouette handprinted porcelain expressing the sense of forced

expressing the sense of forced constriction facing Indigenous Americans just a few years before the signing of the Dawes Act in 1887

created for his kids--and I am pretty certain had quite a lot of fun making

this one slightly smaller and not quite as heavy as the first

which occurred in a classroom where these were used many many years ago

On the back is a bit of rust around the edges and a little scratching the surface of the metal

Charming 19th C. Turned Leg Cricket Stool with Surprise Bird Silhouette handprinted porcelain expressing the sense of forcedThe form of this stool, combined with its red paint, drew me to it, but then I noticed the subtle outline of a bird on the top and was completely sold. I'm not quite sure if the bird was inlaid or just incised very finely and then painted stained a slightly stronger red but of it feels now like this happy surprise, as if placed there just for the delight of the user. And then around the perimeter top edge of the stool is a pattern painted in gold I