Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe but this is the first

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

these in two senses: the wood (as hand-written text on the side of the box notes) came from Friburg [sic] Fair in Maine (Fryeburg fair

painted not once but twice with "Brushes" in a wonderfully painterly manner which feels quite artistic-romantic and looking to me as if it was done so right before getting to work

The shoe 1" tall x 1 1/4" long

I especially love the fact that the fish accompanies the three grazing animals

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe but this is the firstThis 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