Another Beautiful Old Black Folk Art Bottle Doll with Astrican Hair wooden mask 9 3/4” including tail overhang’

9 3/4” including tail overhang’ 3 1/8” d at base

the perfect lion

but all over is a mix of darkening and lightening to the wood and a lost stone here and there which make it appear that it has done a good bit of work

Emblem of friends and lovers true

and the tip

Another Beautiful Old Black Folk Art Bottle Doll with Astrican Hair wooden mask 9 3/4” including tail overhang’Another from the Rockport, MA estate of the artist, activist and collector Ellen Gabin, who had a special fondness for dolls I found the sister of this one a couple of months ago, then returned to find this one. With wonderful hand embroidered face including huge blue eyes and bright red smile showing a few teeth; to me she seems full of life and also gentleness. Black silk, I believe, with the upper body tightly stuffed and the lower half sewn over a