Fantastic Old Folk Art Carved Cat with Painted Eyes icons It features three beautiful concentric

It features three beautiful concentric ribbed bands around both top and bottom

Blue upward-pointing arrows at the top of each head

even better grouped

and in fact he makes me think of Saint Francis in the wild

Fantastic Old Folk Art Carved Cat with Painted Eyes icons It features three beautiful concentricI've had a few old carved cats with great folky faces in the shop, but this is for sure my favorite, and I think it is quite an old one. The stain is definitely original to the piece and has aged to yield a really wonderful surface with mustard yellow undertones, and then creamy white paint for the whites of the eyes, with big black painted pupils. I could look at this face all day, with the alert, carved out ears perfectly framing the long slope of a