Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur toy soldier skittles 12 3/8" x 8 3/8"

12 3/8" x 8 3/8" x 1 1/2" Great structural condition

I think it's a really wonderful piece

I'm not completely certain the age of the form but it is most definitely very old

with feathery trees on either side

flat metal pin and are fairly easily found) to open

Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur toy soldier skittles 12 3/8" x 8 3/8"I found this one in Maine this week and have a sense that it is quite a special one a real piece of American folk art I think, I might guess Pennsylvania, which appears to have some good age to it (late 19th c. would not surprise me). I believe it likely once sat atop a pottery jar as a lid, with the lip around its bottom fitting inside the lip of the jar. I take it for a sheep with this abundant coat of extruded clay for fleece and hand sculptured