Handmade Papier Mache Russian Folk Doll in Lithuanian Costume Bohemia glass and the little bird delivers

and the little bird delivers your smoke in its little beak

which would be equally great placed on the table or hanging on the wall

next to the artist’s name is writing in pencil

I believe the upper calendar portion of the originally  9 1/2 x 4 3/4” sheet was cut off

Handmade Papier Mache Russian Folk Doll in Lithuanian Costume Bohemia glass and the little bird deliversI'm really taken with this little papier mache doll, so finely constructed and painted, and with a presence that far exceeds her diminutive stature (she feels rather like a tower of calm and composure!) I've learned that she is one of a set of 16 such dolls, handmade in Russia (in Moscow I believe) in the early 1960s, with traditional costumes representing all of the states of the Soviet Union at the time. She, in shades of white, blue and yellow,