Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur limoges porcelain the prolific and endlessly inventive

the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist who made this piece

augmented by eyeballs that make him look cross-eyed

Such a charming carving

I believe original to it

alligatoring on the larger

Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur limoges porcelain the prolific and endlessly inventiveI 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