Old Erzgebirge Small Hand-painted Barn with Lone Horse Maine wood duck The Man of the World

The Man of the World and the Christian

reddish-rust highlights

including in combination with splint ash on the lower half of the vessel

Signed AD on the bottom

Old Erzgebirge Small Hand-painted Barn with Lone Horse Maine wood duck The Man of the WorldA small thing, but such a lovely one really, how to beat the color scheme and patterning on this old Erzgebirge painted barn? And a pretty great white stripe painted down the front of this brown horse's face, too. One could certainly build a miniature barnyard scene around this, though I kind of love this horse having it all to herself. The manner of the painting on the barn indicates to me c. 1920s 30s, but I think it was well stored away as it's in