Sweet Old Folk Art House Still Bank antique Maurice A. Knight stoneware and the boy's hand resting

and the boy's hand resting on the dog's neck in return (much more important than his book

a mother sitting atop her presumed lost child

It's nice and substantial

made even better by the free-hand painting of his eyes and paws

It appears to have been hand-painted and additionally features very fine incising on each of the small "petals" that surround the repeating circular forms with black dots

Sweet Old Folk Art House Still Bank antique Maurice A. Knight stoneware and the boy's hand restingI can't resist an old handmade wooden house, and even better when it's a coin bank too! This is a very sweet one, early 20th century I believe, with wonderful carved details, including the frames and pane dividers on all of the windows, the panels and tiny knob! of the door. Plus alligatoring to the paint on the window frames, with hand painted red curtains and little potted plants in two of them, and then a green stem with little red flowers or