Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole Jeff Brown pottery 5 1/2" across at base

5 1/2" across at base

with at least half a dozen different browns incorporated

How much nicer to use this old hourglass timer than one's phone to track the minutes while boiling an egg

I think Chas must have be a pretty privileged child to have such a fine slate

the stoneware vessel itself feels Japanese

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole Jeff Brown pottery 5 1/2" across at baseI find this very old, small carved figure extraordinarily beautiful, equally in terms of form and fantastically aged surface, with pale yellow paint on the face and gorgeous blue green for the shirt, which still pops. I believe it was probably once part of a whirlygig, with a screw still in the base, which is nailed to the inside bottom of the legs, and via which it would have attached it to a larger structure. The upper body of the figure is attached