Kissing Couple, Mid-Late 1800s' Colored Ink Folk Art Drawing by Wayne B. Blouch, Lancaster, PA Yugoslavian I'd guess it's ceramic or

I'd guess it's ceramic or some hard composite covered in a thin layer of rubber--plenty heavy to make a useful paperweight

Very stable condition

embodying painstaking labor

it seems possible that they were chess pieces—if so

and glued back together again

Kissing Couple, Mid-Late 1800s' Colored Ink Folk Art Drawing by Wayne B. Blouch, Lancaster, PA Yugoslavian I'd guess it's ceramic orWhat a kiss! And what a couple! And what a great intertwining of stripes, as well as tongues!:) Poor little doggy, though, feeling left out of the action. This and several others I am listing came from a portfolio of drawings by Pennsylvania folk outsider artist Wayne B. Blouch of Lancaster, PA, purchased from the estate of art professor & art historian Jill McKeever Furst, who taught at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA for over 10