Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail vase with tree and blossoms this tabletop scale painted wicker

this tabletop scale painted wicker hamper

I love the absurdity of this one

perhaps WWI

I think this old mold is quite iconic feeling in it simplicity of form

with the painted frame of the slate itself now a mellow gold

Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail vase with tree and blossoms this tabletop scale painted wickerI found this hand formed clay skunk, dipped in a thick black, almost tar like (but not sticky) coat, at a show in Pennsylvania this past summer, and have just enjoyed having him sitting around for a while. Something about the shape of those individually sculpted and applied legs really does it for me, and then this bristle tail too. I have some notion that the tail had a function like the bristles found at one end of old cork screws used for clearing