Hand-puppet Animals with Painted Papier Mache Heads - Set of 4 cryptomeria horny toad handle is 1 1/8" across

handle is 1 1/8" across at widest

Made of thick pressed glass

I purchased this painting by Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2018) out of the studio of her estate in Wellesley

Found in Massachusetts

Hand-puppet Animals with Painted Papier Mache Heads - Set of 4 cryptomeria horny toad handle is 1 1/8" acrossI'm never one to pass by a charming hand puppet, and all the better to find a set of them! Here we have an elephant, cat, bird, and I'm not completely sure on the fourth one with the pink head, a pig? I think the painted painted faces are pretty fabulous, perhaps especially that blue elephant with long trunk and the long yellow beak of the bird. Their clothes are made of a sort of nylon, secured with ribbons toughly wrapped around their necks. Plenty