Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur child's drawing and structurally very sound

and structurally very sound

though more ornately carved than others I've seen

and some white spattering on the top piece

handle alone 7 7/8" long

Fabulous Redware Pottery Folk Art Sheep (Lid) with Extruded Fur child's drawing and structurally very soundI found this one in Maine this week and have a sense that it is quite a special one a real piece of American folk art I think, I might guess Pennsylvania, which appears to have some good age to it (late 19th c. would not surprise me). I believe it likely once sat atop a pottery jar as a lid, with the lip around its bottom fitting inside the lip of the jar. I take it for a sheep with this abundant coat of extruded clay for fleece and hand sculptured