Antique Pennsylvania Folk Art Mirror with Painted Bird 1925 american legion medal if you're hungry

if you're hungry

and would take some work to get apart

and that this vessel was made using a mold

It had been completed just two years earlier

Antique Pennsylvania Folk Art Mirror with Painted Bird 1925 american legion medal if you're hungryEverything about this mirror with bird (original to it) is a a little wonky, which is much of what I love about it! The carved and polychromed bird veers just a hair to one side (which seems to be how it was made) and shows paint loss in a couple of spots, and the mirror is all kinds of aged all of which adds up to a thing with, to my eye, a whole lot of charm and personality. I know this was found in Pennsylvania and looks Pennsylvania German to me.