Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame wooden nutcracker This terra cotta sculpture is

This terra cotta sculpture is unsigned

or she can stand if propped a bit against something

and hard to beat the surface on the polychrome

It measures 3ʺ in diameter and 4

Stands square and steady on its own

Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame wooden nutcracker This terra cotta sculpture isI love the back almost as much as the front on this antique folk art frame, with all of those hand stitches against brown paper telling the story of its composition of hundred of bits of brown leather. Like a leather workers version of a cigar box wood tramp art frame, but much rarer to find in my experience.(Also feels a bit like a precursor to folded cigarette pack frames.) Lovely, with a rich, warm patina to the leather. 8 1 2" x 7 1 2" and in good