Francie Philbrook's Large Red Treen Apple with Horse Roulette small pottery plate This clay figure is pre-Columbian

This clay figure is pre-Columbian

(In this scenario

holding back a door like a good guardian

I think this is pretty great

This one is also unusual for its underside

Francie Philbrook's Large Red Treen Apple with Horse Roulette small pottery plate This clay figure is pre-ColumbianAnother week, another old treen apple, because I love them and because each one is really its own thing, varying in size and age and paint and contents and the life it has led. This one appears to have spent some time in the possession of a young Francie Philbrook, who wrote her name on one of the five gaming chips for the horse roulette game housed inside. It's a fairly early one, and a nice large one, with ball still resting in the roulette spinner.