Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics The cages measure 2 3/8"

The cages measure 2 3/8" long each

I really love the disposition of this one

and this framed piecework block just struck me as a really beautiful thing

or olive pits

giving thanks to various saints for their divine interventions

Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics The cages measure 2 3/8"This amazing thing, quite a potent object I think, resonating in all sorts of ways. What a face, smiling but also perhaps a bit haunting, in very old, very crusty paint that clearly weathered the elements for many many years, with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one. Some old yellow paint around the edges too. The round, cast iron clapper inside produces the most wonderful