Dutch Boy Smoking Pipe, Hand-drawn Watercolor Postcard, 1924 woman with baby It may be the product

It may be the product of chaotic times

These wooden animals--dogs

I purchased this terrific handwoven rug from the estate sale of an artist and gallerist on Newbury Street in Boston who dealt in Haitian art primarily

10 1/4" x 11 1/8" x 5 3/8" tall

with the instruction that on fair days the woman should be turned into the sun

Dutch Boy Smoking Pipe, Hand-drawn Watercolor Postcard, 1924 woman with baby It may be the productI've come to understand that a Dutch boy in clogs was a common subject for hand drawn postcards in the first quarter of the 20th century, and was used as the basis for all sorts of playful variations. (I had another in the shop missing one sock, reading 'In Haste I am Yours'.) I love the pink cheeks and arched eyebrows on this (cheeky!) one, puffing on a very long pipe with trail of smoke behind presumably straight off the streets of Amsterdam! 3 1 2"