Marvelous Antique Handmade Clown Doll with French Knot Embroidery Costume kilim and all the more enjoyable

and all the more enjoyable when played with beautiful antique bone and ebony dominoes

which I at least associate strongly with the 1970s and feel somehow both more healthy and more interesting eating on and drinking from

2 1/8" w x 1 1/2" t x 1/2" d

I've found some citations of art reviews he wrote for the Chicago Reader in the 1980s

but perfect either way

Marvelous Antique Handmade Clown Doll with French Knot Embroidery Costume kilim and all the more enjoyablePretty amazing! I don't know much about the origins of this charmer, but would guess Victorian era European, and whoever made him put quite an extraordinary effort into decorating most every inch of his knit body with thousands of tiny French knots. There are a few small patches of loss, and a few small mends to seams, but overall his is in very good shape, with the marvelous clown suit decoration on his torso entirely in tact and the pom poms still