Fantastic Old Folk Art Carved Cat with Painted Eyes icons but this wonderful little carved

but this wonderful little carved man has a really nice patina

9 3/4" across x 2 1/2: deep

which features what I believe is a Garden of Eden scene in bas relief

and in fact he makes me think of Saint Francis in the wild

Fantastic Old Folk Art Carved Cat with Painted Eyes icons but this wonderful little carvedI've had a few old carved cats with great folky faces in the shop, but this is for sure my favorite, and I think it is quite an old one. The stain is definitely original to the piece and has aged to yield a really wonderful surface with mustard yellow undertones, and then creamy white paint for the whites of the eyes, with big black painted pupils. I could look at this face all day, with the alert, carved out ears perfectly framing the long slope of a