Another Beautiful Old Black Folk Art Bottle Doll with Astrican Hair wooden mask perhaps especially for the beautifully

perhaps especially for the beautifully rendered (in graphite) lace collar and cuffs

sweetly detailed across the toe and along the seams

Just a very lovely antique treen barrel shaped box

) I especially love that the beak opens and closes

the perfect lion

Another Beautiful Old Black Folk Art Bottle Doll with Astrican Hair wooden mask perhaps especially for the beautifullyAnother from the Rockport, MA estate of the artist, activist and collector Ellen Gabin, who had a special fondness for dolls I found the sister of this one a couple of months ago, then returned to find this one. With wonderful hand embroidered face including huge blue eyes and bright red smile showing a few teeth; to me she seems full of life and also gentleness. Black silk, I believe, with the upper body tightly stuffed and the lower half sewn over a