Set of Three Antique Erzgebirge Animals vintage American art pottery all the better for being

all the better for being freed from the pipe stem

and I think it could actually be an African American "fanner

though I could not find a reference to the Jan Ford cottages noted at upper right

heart decorated iron pieces were usually made for a young women's dowry or as wedding presents

The drawing was done on an semi-translucent onion skin type paper in graphite

Set of Three Antique Erzgebirge Animals vintage American art pottery all the better for beingThree great old German Erzgebirge animals, the horse especially special I think, with a beautiful if somewhat inexplicable large red spot on his back and looking so elegant with those elongated legs. I take the gray one for a cat and the yellow for a cow, but perhaps it is a dog! I think they make quite a nice grouping, and the two smaller ones stack perfectly, so I'm selling as a set. Horse: 4 t x 3 l. Yellow: 3 l x 2 1 2 t. Gray 1 3 4 t x 2 3 8 l.