Hugely Empathetic Old Painted Make Do Wooden Doll lombardy marquetry I would throw this in

I would throw this in a simple old frame and hang it on a wall where I could look at it a lot

Some surface splitting on the face and back

it could definitely anchor a room

There is some wear and cracking to the paint (more visible here in magnified views than with the naked eye) and some rust on the base

Hugely Empathetic Old Painted Make Do Wooden Doll lombardy marquetry I would throw this inThis one oh, how could I to leave her behind? She looks to me to have been fashioned from whatever pieces of scrap wood were lying around many many years ago, and then given this terrific paint job, with big white painted buttons down the front of her blue dress, and a vaguely face like face that perhaps only a mother or motherly sort! could love! (And then excellent bright yellow for the back of her head.) Her carved arms, held on with nails at the