Another Beautiful Old Black Folk Art Bottle Doll with Astrican Hair wooden mask but what I love most

but what I love most is the way that the shot and eroded away parts of the head and neck/back transform this duck into a fiercer looking creature - like a serpent of some sort

Emblem of friends and lovers true

9 3/4” including tail overhang’ 3 1/8” d at base

and the tip

Both in excellent vintage condition

Another Beautiful Old Black Folk Art Bottle Doll with Astrican Hair wooden mask but what I love mostAnother from the Rockport, MA estate of the artist, activist and collector Ellen Gabin, who had a special fondness for dolls I found the sister of this one a couple of months ago, then returned to find this one. With wonderful hand embroidered face including huge blue eyes and bright red smile showing a few teeth; to me she seems full of life and also gentleness. Black silk, I believe, with the upper body tightly stuffed and the lower half sewn over a