Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women pottery bust leaves and roots

leaves and roots

but the wood has been hollowed out and whittled

to the mid to late 19th century

There is a bit of loss of lacquer just around the edges of the box

the more I've become certain that I'm not going to tire of old stone fruit any time soon

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women pottery bust leaves and rootsI purchased these and several other pencil drawings by the same unknown artist from a dealer in Maine, who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings. Their maker certainly had a way with faces, and with conveying character through specific details, and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter, with the elder home in her nightgown as the younger heads out to