Soulful Gesture, Antique Paper Doll with Yellow Arms and Die Cut Face rosebut white pants

white pants

with the lower half of the black clay body polished to a sheen and showing some minimal decoration

Photos do a very good job of documenting (not comprehensive

and evoking the gesture of a feaf fluttering to the ground

One imagines a gift from a farmer husband to a wife who was no stranger to back breaking work

Soulful Gesture, Antique Paper Doll with Yellow Arms and Die Cut Face rosebut white pantsSmall things, big pleasures something about the yellow watercolored arms and legs of this paper doll of sorts, and the gesture of that one raised arm, tapering to a point, is just right, and somehow a bit haunting too. I'm not much one for die cut faces, but the feathers wings on this one are pretty great, and make for an especially good silhouette from the reverse side. Strangely but truly satsifying. i5 1 8" t. Good condition, with a few tiny