Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics Much less cumbersome now on

Much less cumbersome now on his own

and this framed piecework block just struck me as a really beautiful thing

and great polka dots around the middle of his center piece

The cages measure 2 3/8" long each

with wear and aging to the paint as there should be and a few stains here and there

Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics Much less cumbersome now onThis amazing thing, quite a potent object I think, resonating in all sorts of ways. What a face, smiling but also perhaps a bit haunting, in very old, very crusty paint that clearly weathered the elements for many many years, with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one. Some old yellow paint around the edges too. The round, cast iron clapper inside produces the most wonderful