Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure United States crayon co though a little earlier

though a little earlier

I think this all makes the piece even better

with the marvelous clown suit decoration on his torso entirely in tact--and the pom poms still on his booties

to the terrific lines of his body and gracefully gesturing long arms and fingers

Lignum vitae is a gorgeous and rather miraculous very hard wood

Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure United States crayon co though a little earlierI believe the hat and outfit on this carved and painted fellow is Colonial era American, and perhaps he is meant to be a Revolutionary soldier. With hands in his pockets and rather relaxed sort of disposition though, he looks to me poised perhaps for other things. I especially love his large, sort of lumpy nose and partially open red painted mouth, and also the sideward cast of his brown eyes, as if keeping an eye on something, or someone, coming