Marvelous Antique Handmade Clown Doll with French Knot Embroidery Costume kilim Really a perfect little thing

Really a perfect little thing

and all the more enjoyable when played with beautiful antique bone and ebony dominoes

I love this thing

for which this one would be perfect

The is one old chip to the wood on one side of the hand

Marvelous Antique Handmade Clown Doll with French Knot Embroidery Costume kilim Really a perfect little thingPretty amazing! I don't know much about the origins of this charmer, but would guess Victorian era European, and whoever made him put quite an extraordinary effort into decorating most every inch of his knit body with thousands of tiny French knots. There are a few small patches of loss, and a few small mends to seams, but overall his is in very good shape, with the marvelous clown suit decoration on his torso entirely in tact and the pom poms still