Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur limoges porcelain alligatoring on the larger

alligatoring on the larger

I believe original to it

The glass slides open easily and all is in good structural condition

augmented by eyeballs that make him look cross-eyed

Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur limoges porcelain alligatoring on the largerI found this one in Maine this week and have a sense that it is quite a special one a real piece of American folk art I think, I might guess Pennsylvania, which appears to have some good age to it (late 19th c. would not surprise me). I believe it likely once sat atop a pottery jar as a lid, with the lip around its bottom fitting inside the lip of the jar. I take it for a sheep with this abundant coat of extruded clay for fleece and hand sculptured