Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face mohair teddy bear I presume featuring its maker

I presume featuring its maker

but overall good condition with no notable dings or other issues

) They wrote and travelled extensively promoting the "Visual Training Technique

A little paint loss along the left edge in addition to stains along the right edge and over the water

Happiness is found in virtue

Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face mohair teddy bear I presume featuring its makerI think the face painted long ago on this old darner is just fantastic feeling as if hovering in a sort of liminal zone between person and ghost, male and female, happy and sad, etc. And that marvelous old creamy white paint, with a bit of red on the cheeks, with what looks to be a fingerprint preserved for posterity in the dab at right. To my eye just a fabulous thing in all regards, which made my heart skip a beat when I spotted it an instant sense