Fantastic Old Folk Art Oil Cloth Black Cat with Whiskers and Trousers Papier Mache puppets or filled with a bloom

or filled with a bloom

at 59”x80

which I think gives this little rabbit a very energetic feeling and immediacy

with a 5/8" opening and 1 3/4" diameter at base

the donkeys--and companion elephants

Fantastic Old Folk Art Oil Cloth Black Cat with Whiskers and Trousers Papier Mache puppets or filled with a bloomQuite a cat, hand sewn of oil cloth I think at least a hundred years ago, and surely one of a kind. The terrific pink, heart shaped stitched on nose and mouth are sewn on with the same loop type stitching as used to hold the cat together, and then these fantastic hanging whiskers on either side, some still tipped in yellow paint. Plus red linen trousers held up with buttoned straps. The green sparkly center of one of the beaded eyes is gone and he is