Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women pottery bust There is a bit of

There is a bit of loss of lacquer just around the edges of the box

to the mid to late 19th century

of a Jacob A

and the end of the handle has a hole for stringing a wire or ribbon through if one is inclined (as I would be) to hang this beauty on the wall

and perfectly imperfect

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women pottery bust There is a bit ofI purchased these and several other pencil drawings by the same unknown artist from a dealer in Maine, who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings. Their maker certainly had a way with faces, and with conveying character through specific details, and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter, with the elder home in her nightgown as the younger heads out to