Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms 2005 with black and silver "In

with black and silver "In Memorium" ribbon on reverse

I find it completely wonder-inducing

I took a few of the photographs of it upside down

glazed the perfect shade of blue

Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms 2005 with black and silver "InSuch a curious one! I don't really know a thing about the origins of this carved and painted figure, but really I love it, and while I don't think it is terribly old, I do think it was made very much in the tradition of antique carved folk art dolls, which it closely follows from the form of the carved body, to the carved face and hat, to the cloth wrapped wire arms. And then this pastel hued wonderful paint job, which seems perhaps to roll in some