Old Wooden Masher with Whimsically Carved Handle old north Carolina pottery I really love the paint

I really love the paint job on this one--a nice warm brown with terrific orange details outlining the drawers and punctuating the center of the handles

All appear to be French and a handful are still wrapped in paper

but I think constitutionally a drawing

more gestural nest of forest green shrubbery and what I believe are a few stacks of logs

My guess is these--with no wooden backs

Old Wooden Masher with Whimsically Carved Handle old north Carolina pottery I really love the paintThe smoothed bottom of this old masher shows that it was much used, and no wonder, as the interestingly carved handle, reminding me of a whimsy, provides a great grip! Another example of a utilitarian object that someone took care to make just to their liking, nice now as a sculptural one, though it could certainly be put to use again. 9 3 16" t x 1 7 8" in diameter at widest. There is one small chip to the handle as pictured, very minor, and some