Curious Folk Art Bone Carving with Cat and Dog and Bird Clare Leighton color printed on bright white

color printed on bright white cardstock

Initialed at lower right and framed as found

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

7 1/2" x 5 1/2" I think maybe tempera on wood panel

Curious Folk Art Bone Carving with Cat and Dog and Bird Clare Leighton color printed on bright whiteI 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