Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms 2005 which is wonderfully strange

which is wonderfully strange

with black and silver "In Memorium" ribbon on reverse

glazed the perfect shade of blue

This is the first I've seen quite like this

I find it completely wonder-inducing

Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms 2005 which is wonderfully strangeSuch a curious one! I don't really know a thing about the origins of this carved and painted figure, but really I love it, and while I don't think it is terribly old, I do think it was made very much in the tradition of antique carved folk art dolls, which it closely follows from the form of the carved body, to the carved face and hat, to the cloth wrapped wire arms. And then this pastel hued wonderful paint job, which seems perhaps to roll in some