Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur child's drawing though more ornately carved than

though more ornately carved than others I've seen

and also love that it feels very much a product of the thinking of Harvey himself as opposed to a notebook just keeping to assignments

old postcard

A beauty of a basket

with a little scraping to the slate that does not at all detract

Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur child's drawing though more ornately carved thanI found this one in Maine this week and have a sense that it is quite a special one a real piece of American folk art I think, I might guess Pennsylvania, which appears to have some good age to it (late 19th c. would not surprise me). I believe it likely once sat atop a pottery jar as a lid, with the lip around its bottom fitting inside the lip of the jar. I take it for a sheep with this abundant coat of extruded clay for fleece and hand sculptured