Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur limoges porcelain The glass slides open easily

The glass slides open easily and all is in good structural condition

the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist who made this piece

augmented by eyeballs that make him look cross-eyed

I might guess 1950s or so but am not entirely sure

Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur limoges porcelain The glass slides open easilyI found this one in Maine this week and have a sense that it is quite a special one a real piece of American folk art I think, I might guess Pennsylvania, which appears to have some good age to it (late 19th c. would not surprise me). I believe it likely once sat atop a pottery jar as a lid, with the lip around its bottom fitting inside the lip of the jar. I take it for a sheep with this abundant coat of extruded clay for fleece and hand sculptured