Fantastic Old Folk Art Carved Cat with Painted Eyes small Native American pot and I love the lighter

and I love the lighter silver tone of the tip

I took a few of the photographs of it upside down

and mostly likely dates to the earlyish 20th century

" a nod I believe to Descarte's classic work of the same title

Fantastic Old Folk Art Carved Cat with Painted Eyes small Native American pot and I love the lighterI've had a few old carved cats with great folky faces in the shop, but this is for sure my favorite, and I think it is quite an old one. The stain is definitely original to the piece and has aged to yield a really wonderful surface with mustard yellow undertones, and then creamy white paint for the whites of the eyes, with big black painted pupils. I could look at this face all day, with the alert, carved out ears perfectly framing the long slope of a