Fantastic Folk Art Lion with Moveable Legs, Long Tail and Bared Teeth! picture of a woman holding a cache of collected

holding a cache of collected rocks or shells

I really have no sense of the value of this

and her certainly looks like a smug cat with a canary in his belly

or tea bags--is a great example

This pretty hand-painted porcelain Royal Copenhagen bell was designed by Grethe Helland Hansen in the 1960s

Fantastic Folk Art Lion with Moveable Legs, Long Tail and Bared Teeth! picture of a woman holding a cache of collectedThis lion was clearly made by someone special, and maybe for someone special too, and I sure love them for it. The shapes and positioning of the jointed legs make for a luxuriously long lion stride, and then this marvelous mane, done as an additional later and painted with blue and orange dabs, with little cutout ears layered on top of that, attached by nails. Plus great big carved white teeth against blood red lips, and a long stiff rope tail,