Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe crisply painted that yellow house

crisply painted that yellow house is

and is in very good vintage condition

Photos don't capture how the homespun warmth and presence of this board

these in two senses: the wood (as hand-written text on the side of the box notes) came from Friburg [sic] Fair in Maine (Fryeburg fair

I especially love the fact that the fish accompanies the three grazing animals

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe crisply painted that yellow houseThis 19th century salt glazed stoneware bottle is one of my favorite things ever, its surface incised with wonderfully naive, open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird, which the figure looks as if he's about to get on the back of and they'll fly away together. So much life and immediacy in the pair of them, which one imagines were etched into the clay with whatever pointy stick or tool was handy. Just the sort of