Dutch Man Folk Art Hand-painted Wooden Doorstop pair of carved bone boxes with no clips or cracks

with no clips or cracks

with a nice patina

I knew when I found this drawing (and a second listed separately)--sent as a Christmas card to artist Lois Gross Smiley

unsigned but presumed mid-century as it seems quintessentially so

Dutch Man Folk Art Hand-painted Wooden Doorstop pair of carved bone boxes with no clips or cracksI'm completely in love with the color combination of luscious matte orange, navy, yellow, black and green on this old handmade wooden door stop. I think its maker was too, as they seemed rather less concerned with the details of the face of this presumably Dutch man sweetly and a bit hesitantly penciling in eyes, nose and chin, then painting a thin red line for the lips. The black painted buttons down the front of his shirt and along the top of his