Contemporary Hand Carved Painted Wood Primitive Folk Art Lion Pull Toy on Wheels

Description: A hand carved wood and polychrome painted American Folk-Art lion pull toy on wheels. The carving shows a lion standing on all four on a green painted flat platform having four wheels and a hole in the front where a rope would be inserted for a child to pull the lion along. These toys were very common in the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s in Pennsylvania Dutch Country where they were played with by children of all ages. This is what we believe is a reproduction from the mid to late 1900s. It is by an unknown artist and is unsigned. Most likely was done for a child by his father in the country side somewhere in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The lion has a long brown colored leather tail and a brown carved mane. The body of the lion is colored in yellow and the facial details of the lion are drawn on the yellow flat surface of the face as opposed to being carved. The details show eyes with pupils and a blackened spot within the brown mane on the front of the face for a nose. There is n