Charming Vintage Cement Folk Art Garden Bird! ornamental box This is one of three

This is one of three 5" x 7" glass plate negatives in the shop capturing arrangements of roses in various settings

I can almost hear this little carved wooden bird chirping away in its little wire cage

hinges good

and perhaps a "Chinese Opera" doll

On the sides of each are a brown spotted stag

Charming Vintage Cement Folk Art Garden Bird! ornamental box This is one of threeFeels like this bird would make good company for the naive horse drawing I just listed winningly crude, with lots of heart to it. It appears to be made of some sort of cement, with a fair bit of sand mixed in it I think and it seems to me the bird itself might have been partially cast from a child's bird shaped sand mold, then animated with some incising for the winds and tail feathers and an eye applied to either side of the head. A charmer, meant