Curious Folk Art Bone Carving with Cat and Dog and Bird Clare Leighton which I really love altogether

which I really love altogether for the sort of strangeness of the composition

quite a beautiful and evocative thing I think

and it appears that Joseph took great pleasure detailing the dress

7 1/2" x 5 1/2" I think maybe tempera on wood panel

and splatter ware

Curious Folk Art Bone Carving with Cat and Dog and Bird Clare Leighton which I really love altogetherI don't know the origins of this curious folk art creation, which I purchased from a good auction in New Hampshire, but how could I resist this little dog in his doghouse with bone just below on one side, and cat just around the corner?! Plus a bird just about to fly out of the stylized tree above. Carved of what I believe is likely cow bone, which has been hollowed out inside, and decorated all the way around. Definitely it has a good bit of age to