SOLD Girl Riding Giant Dog, Wonderful 19th C. American Folk Art Carving with Polychrome vintage mickey feeling quite luxurious piled up

feeling quite luxurious piled up together

and I love how small the hollow for snuff is compared with the scale of the shoe itself

it  would make a terrific paperweight on a stylish desk or a subtle yet striking addition to a grouping of any manner of interesting objects

I can't get enough of old wooden objects

and I love the form of the blue racer especially

SOLD Girl Riding Giant Dog, Wonderful 19th C. American Folk Art Carving with Polychrome vintage mickey feeling quite luxurious piled upAnother Rhinebeck find, purchased from a dealer friend from Maine, and which I just felt like I needed to keep company with for at least a brief time. I've handled at least a few late 19th c. naive drawings of young girls riding large dogs (a couple photos included) and as someone who dreams of having a St. Bernard or Mastiff nearly as large as me have a particular penchant for the subject! This is the first time I've seen an American folk art carving