Charming Vintage Cement Folk Art Garden Bird! wide bottom vase Signed at lower left but

Signed at lower left but difficult to read

I don't spend a ton of time looking at jewelry

that has just snapped its jaws tightly closed

In well loved  condition

which shows through a cutout in the top of the box

Charming Vintage Cement Folk Art Garden Bird! wide bottom vase Signed at lower left butFeels like this bird would make good company for the naive horse drawing I just listed winningly crude, with lots of heart to it. It appears to be made of some sort of cement, with a fair bit of sand mixed in it I think and it seems to me the bird itself might have been partially cast from a child's bird shaped sand mold, then animated with some incising for the winds and tail feathers and an eye applied to either side of the head. A charmer, meant