Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail sculpted eagle Amesbury MA

Amesbury MA

and--especially as I'd put these immediately to use serving dips and spreads and olives

and organic

I didn't think too much about this when I grabbed it

Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail sculpted eagle Amesbury MAI found this hand formed clay skunk, dipped in a thick black, almost tar like (but not sticky) coat, at a show in Pennsylvania this past summer, and have just enjoyed having him sitting around for a while. Something about the shape of those individually sculpted and applied legs really does it for me, and then this bristle tail too. I have some notion that the tail had a function like the bristles found at one end of old cork screws used for clearing