SOLD Folk Art Carved Miniature Chair and Rocker in Mint and Red Paint solitaire game The yellow clay bottom points

The yellow clay bottom points to it being from Ohio

Useful still for pulling straight lines

and most definitely if I found toothpaste being sold in a great looking ceramic jar I would most certainly scoop it right up--as someone else did with this at more than 100 years ago

I imagine the figure is an old doctor

probably with this narrative playing out over several panels

SOLD Folk Art Carved Miniature Chair and Rocker in Mint and Red Paint solitaire game The yellow clay bottom pointsI purchased these two chairs together with two more chairs and a table, listed separately, clearly made by the same parent or grandparent for a child many years ago, but thought perhaps best to split into two groups, as the minty green and red paint packs quite a visual punch. I think they're quite fantastic, each piece invested with a whole lot of love, and I must say this rocker, with scalloped carving along the top of the back, is my favorite of