Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird for sale sign And then a pretty flower

And then a pretty flower on stem in clear glass beads on reverse

A few months ago I found the metal skeleton of a wind-up bear toy just like this one--a very beautiful thing in its stripped down state

and quite an old one I believe

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird for sale sign And then a pretty flowerThis 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