Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole vintage Chinese horse This set of four includes

This set of four includes the Brown Bear

A great gift for your favorite wine steward

I really love the big lush brushstrokes on this one--a great interplay of loose vertical and horizonal gestures

and don't know much about it

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole vintage Chinese horse This set of four includesI find this very old, small carved figure extraordinarily beautiful, equally in terms of form and fantastically aged surface, with pale yellow paint on the face and gorgeous blue green for the shirt, which still pops. I believe it was probably once part of a whirlygig, with a screw still in the base, which is nailed to the inside bottom of the legs, and via which it would have attached it to a larger structure. The upper body of the figure is attached