Seated Woman with Scarf, Vintage Amateur Clay Sculpture unusual photograph I'm really smitten with this

I'm really smitten with this sweet little "naive" pencil drawing of a hillside village

with light wear and a bit of rusting to the brass

and front latch closing perfectly so a lock could easily be used on it

Connecticut—and this one is definitely that

then from the beginning one by one

Seated Woman with Scarf, Vintage Amateur Clay Sculpture unusual photograph I'm really smitten with thisI have a dealer collector friend who refers to amateur ceramic sculpture as "lumpy clay" and collects figures of that ilk. This unglazed clay woman has some of that aspect to her for sure, and was definitely made by an amateur, maybe a young student. But I also find her rather elegant, and wonderfully posed poised with those slab like legs feet revealed at the end of her skirt making it feel as though she's very firmly grounded and forever planted,