Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull Zanesville planter Really excellent antique condition

Really excellent antique condition

perhaps in absence of real people around

and the legs as separate layers

Rosine stole these away

Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull Zanesville planter Really excellent antique conditionThis wonderful seagull, carved of wood and polychromed, has a familiarity about it to me, as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place. It's definitely not your average seagull, I really think done by someone known, and something tells me from Nova Scotia but that's just a hunch. The painterly white head with mossy green yellow tipped beak is just glorious, and I love the way it stands balanced on tail features with wire