Very Limber Old Jig Woman with Wonderful Face and Sculptural Hair folk art faces I didn't think too much

I didn't think too much about this small hand-stitched Pennsylvania doll quilt when I scooped it

and even more so to bring it home

and another shows some greenish brown coloration to the orange glaze on the exterior of one side

together with a sort of God's Eye at the center

3 1/2" t x 2 78/8" w x 9/16" d

Very Limber Old Jig Woman with Wonderful Face and Sculptural Hair folk art faces I didn't think too muchI really love her smiling face, but hard to beat the side view showing off her sculptural helmet of hair, fisted hands with detailed fingers, and chunky books so I put that photo first. She was made as a jig doll, with a hole in her back into which a dowel would be inserted in order to hold her up and set her dancing and she's quite a dancer indeed, with every joint limber and every inch of her just waiting to move. Certainly less common to find