Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail vase with tree and blossoms I am pretty sure it

I am pretty sure it is more than 100 years old

perhaps WWI

with the painted frame of the slate itself now a mellow gold

Here it appears the blue was painted over an earlier coat of red

There is not a whole lot out there about Renate Scheer Kalkofen (1935-2013) who created this print (a 4 color screen print I believe) in 1962

Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail vase with tree and blossoms I am pretty sure itI found this hand formed clay skunk, dipped in a thick black, almost tar like (but not sticky) coat, at a show in Pennsylvania this past summer, and have just enjoyed having him sitting around for a while. Something about the shape of those individually sculpted and applied legs really does it for me, and then this bristle tail too. I have some notion that the tail had a function like the bristles found at one end of old cork screws used for clearing