Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms fur topped with a thick coat

topped with a thick coat of varnish or shellac

classic 80s

which is part of what I love about it

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Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms fur topped with a thick coatSuch a curious one! I don't really know a thing about the origins of this carved and painted figure, but really I love it, and while I don't think it is terribly old, I do think it was made very much in the tradition of antique carved folk art dolls, which it closely follows from the form of the carved body, to the carved face and hat, to the cloth wrapped wire arms. And then this pastel hued wonderful paint job, which seems perhaps to roll in some