Brown Glazed Folk Art Signed Clay Lion in the Manner of John Bell tapestry Here's the poem

Here's the poem

with at least half a dozen different browns incorporated

Williams' work has been exhibited in museums across the United States and Canada

rendered in that amazing Persian blue with green belly and wings

and seems perhaps to intersect with an S

Brown Glazed Folk Art Signed Clay Lion in the Manner of John Bell tapestry Here's the poemI don't know the age or much about the origins of this charming lion, but I do know it came from Pennsylvania, and certainly it bears a strong resemblance to the iconic folk art lion of John Bell (18001880) from the Shenandoah Valley, which itself bore the influence of Staffordshire and Rockingham lions from the mid 18th c. This one is signed Dorlisa (or possibly Dorlida) Lyons (appropriately) and I think it honors its predecessors quite nicely, and