Wonderful Old Handmade Folk Art Doll with Patchwork Dress old butterfly potholder with the balls rolling around

with the balls rolling around easily in the cage

but both the style and scale of this table and chairs makes me think they were made for a shelf in an architects office

(If unsold

Pure joy to find this one in Mid-coast Maine this week

based on the color of the beads and looking at other examples (of which there are not very many) is that it dates sometime 1920s-40s

Wonderful Old Handmade Folk Art Doll with Patchwork Dress old butterfly potholder with the balls rolling aroundOne of my favorite dolls I've found between her soulful embroidered face, hand stitched patchwork dress, fabric wrapped legs (those legs made of cornhusk I believe) and floppy bow stitched to one side of her head plus a pink one at her neck, what a lot of love and soul was invested in her, and how singularly beautiful I think she is. Cornhusk dolls have a very long tradition in Native American cultures of the Northeast; I don't believe that's what she