Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole vintage Chinese horse ) Surely inspiration and/or material

) Surely inspiration and/or material for all sorts of creative endeavors

but I am not sure if the dog or the girl

A great gift for your favorite wine steward

Or it would make a stunning planter for a beautiful leafy green houseplant

for that matter

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole vintage Chinese horse ) Surely inspiration and/or materialI find this very old, small carved figure extraordinarily beautiful, equally in terms of form and fantastically aged surface, with pale yellow paint on the face and gorgeous blue green for the shirt, which still pops. I believe it was probably once part of a whirlygig, with a screw still in the base, which is nailed to the inside bottom of the legs, and via which it would have attached it to a larger structure. The upper body of the figure is attached