Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face deterioration 1920s or so I would

1920s or so I would guess

And never was piping so sad

5 3/8” x 6 1/2”

which someone wrote in pencil right on it

Terrific condition

Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face deterioration 1920s or so I wouldI 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