Sewer Tile Folk Art Bust with Great Face flat sewing basket Or pretty on the table

Or pretty on the table filled with crisp white linen napkins

most of them were smashed long ago to retrieve the coins inside

purely decorative pieces around the top

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4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and in good antique condition with general wear and one small blue pen surface mark

Sewer Tile Folk Art Bust with Great Face flat sewing basket Or pretty on the tableA wonderfully folky example of sewer pipe sewer tile pottery, this guy would have been sculpted by a factory worker at the end of the day using leftover clay. One sees some sewer tile pieces that were made using molds, but it's the hand sculpted ones that I love, which were made as whimsies of sorts, sometimes as gifts and sometimes, as I understand it, as (often humorously exaggerated) portraits of bosses or co workers. This guy looks to me as if in