Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics and this framed piecework block

and this framed piecework block just struck me as a really beautiful thing

I really love the disposition of this one

with wear and aging to the paint as there should be and a few stains here and there

or olive pits

Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics and this framed piecework blockThis amazing thing, quite a potent object I think, resonating in all sorts of ways. What a face, smiling but also perhaps a bit haunting, in very old, very crusty paint that clearly weathered the elements for many many years, with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one. Some old yellow paint around the edges too. The round, cast iron clapper inside produces the most wonderful