Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe with great Western-inspired fonts and

with great Western-inspired fonts and lasso

but this is the first I've come across repaired with string

Photos don't capture how the homespun warmth and presence of this board

The is one old chip to the wood on one side of the hand

cast bronze I believe

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe with great Western-inspired fonts andThis 19th century salt glazed stoneware bottle is one of my favorite things ever, its surface incised with wonderfully naive, open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird, which the figure looks as if he's about to get on the back of and they'll fly away together. So much life and immediacy in the pair of them, which one imagines were etched into the clay with whatever pointy stick or tool was handy. Just the sort of