French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set antlers This lovely sculptural small vase

This lovely sculptural small vase is by the late master pottery John C

This hide shows some age but this mask is in excellent

terrifically beautiful

I really love love this

with at least half a dozen different browns incorporated

French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set antlers This lovely sculptural small vaseI have a weakness for old figurative skittles or nine pins, and hard to beat a set of nine that includes both soldiers AND sailors! I'm not entirely sure if they were a combined set to begin with or came together at some later point, but I am pretty certain they are French, and 1940s at the latest. The outfits and colors are great, and I especially love the facial expressions, with eyes all looking in one direction, as if toward a rolling ball coming