Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women pottery bust and the end of the

and the end of the handle has a hole for stringing a wire or ribbon through if one is inclined (as I would be) to hang this beauty on the wall

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

The wood is 7/8" thick and the piece measures 1 7/8" across at the base

1/2" thick

and perfectly imperfect

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women pottery bust and the end of theI 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