Red and White ARTS Large Vintage Hand-painted Wooden Sign folk art portraits but the spoon component is

but the spoon component is gone

carved from one piece of wood--by the same maker I think as a smaller one I am listing separately

carefully braided black thread hair

There is a small ink smudge above the eye on her right thigh

allowing his to be positioned standing or sitting

Red and White ARTS Large Vintage Hand-painted Wooden Sign folk art portraits but the spoon component isThough still quite long surely this sign was surely once longer I might guess relating to martial arts of some sort, though it is the right end that was cut off (quite some years ago, and it has aged quite a bit sense), so perhaps it read Arts of Japan or Arts of China? I love the succinctness of just "ARTS" now, and the great red lettering against creamy white, all aged to a great surface. So many contexts this could be good in I think, and with its