SOLD Early, Much Weathered Black Scare Cat on Iron Post Mounted to Wood contemporary Cochiti pottery with the open mouth feeling

with the open mouth feeling as if crying out with some urgency across many hundreds of years

glass eyes

with a strong

Framed: 16 3/4" x 14 1/4"

which shows up just a tiny bit on the inside

SOLD Early, Much Weathered Black Scare Cat on Iron Post Mounted to Wood contemporary Cochiti pottery with the open mouth feelingThis wonderful one clearly did many years of duty as a scare cat out in the garden; it is much weathered, shows a few losses, and wants to be handled with a little gentleness now, but it's definitely the real, old deal, the likes of which I've not found before. One side shows an iron post running vertically down its center, which was then mounted to a wooden post that I assume was then stuck into the ground. The cat itself was constructed of three