Charming Pottery Mouse and Mole - A Pair salt box house Some aging to the cardboard

Some aging to the cardboard is visible mostly around the ages of the sheets

I really like this painting

and also looking down  over her shoulder in order to see the lined pages of her book

Signed on the undersides

--on the bottom in a calligraphic manner that I have not been able to decipher

Charming Pottery Mouse and Mole - A Pair salt box house Some aging to the cardboardI'm selling these two as a pair, as they seem a perfect couple to me, the mole signed R. B and then another B, while the mouse not clearly signed by surely by the same maker, I would guess a pretty young one, at least whenever they crafted these! Not too many pottery moles out there I don't think (I do believe this is meant to be mole!?), though I think this one makes a strong argument for more! I might keep these on the desk to bring some levity to