Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl stone blocks set but what I love about

but what I love about them is how much the black and red painted decoration resembles grain painting

There are tears to the paper at the bottom corners and one along the left edge

and a series of works on paper based on them

This is the best I've held in my hands

and titled "Une Page Moulee" (moulee technically meaning molded

Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl stone blocks set but what I love aboutSuch a curious one, purchased from a favorite dealer friend in Maine, the source of many a wonderful thing. She appears to be a pipe bowl, carved entirely of wood (one piece of her torso, one for her lower half) with the bowl of the pipe at her crotch and the stem of the pipe extending from her rear end! She is also hinged at the hips not a lot of give there, but some; I'm guessing that when smoked she rocks a bit to and fro! (One would just needs a