Curious Folk Art Bone Carving with Cat and Dog and Bird Clare Leighton having spent a few years

having spent a few years on a farm negotiating geese

and splatter ware

If I didn't have the perfect thing to put it in

only enhanced by wear

and it appears that Joseph took great pleasure detailing the dress

Curious Folk Art Bone Carving with Cat and Dog and Bird Clare Leighton having spent a few yearsI don't know the origins of this curious folk art creation, which I purchased from a good auction in New Hampshire, but how could I resist this little dog in his doghouse with bone just below on one side, and cat just around the corner?! Plus a bird just about to fly out of the stylized tree above. Carved of what I believe is likely cow bone, which has been hollowed out inside, and decorated all the way around. Definitely it has a good bit of age to