Cow Behind the Log Pile with Basket and Squirrel, Clever Old Naive Graphite Drawing stoneware canister with some wear/loss/darkening to the

with some wear/loss/darkening to the paint

" Such that one could tuck a few spools of thread and whatever else inside the pouch and have the pin cushion there too

and the finer plaid shows some thread loss--but the pin cushion will stand on end like a little sculpture

When I first saw him I immediately associated the black painted plaque he is mounted to as looking like a crescent moon

Cow Behind the Log Pile with Basket and Squirrel, Clever Old Naive Graphite Drawing stoneware canister with some wear/loss/darkening to theJust a clever little drawing, which makes me smile, including for the tiny squirrel hovering in the bottom left corner. I really love the way those piled logs were drawn too, contained between the stumps of the trees which, one presumes, yielded them. 4 3 4" x 4". Graphite on lined school paper, very good condition, earlyish 20th century.