Wonderful Old Carved Figure, Presumed Very Early Bedpost Doll objet d'art Most drawings are on one

Most drawings are on one side of the page only

The glaze is a pretty blue with just a hint of green in it

though also nice just holding down a shelf

scattered water stains on the surface

which looks rather as if wrapped in a clear band-aid

Wonderful Old Carved Figure, Presumed Very Early Bedpost Doll objet d'art Most drawings are on oneWhen I purchased this, in Maine, I had a bit of a feeling that it might be a very very old carved chess queen, but now I believe it is in fact a bedpost doll, as I have found a very very similar one sold at auction by Pook & Pook, which cites it as 18th century American, likely from New England. (I have included a photo of that one, which is at far right in the image of three sold together.) From what I have read, while some of these dolls were the in