"Me Take Yo Likeness Mitsi" Antique Drawing of Artist and Old Woman serape This great little vintage studio

This great little vintage studio pottery bud vase features an interesting light green glaze that is mostly mossy in color

packing in trees

with the number 10

Such a luscious vase

and I have not found another quite like it

"Me Take Yo Likeness Mitsi" Antique Drawing of Artist and Old Woman serape This great little vintage studioWhat a curious and charming old drawing! The handwritten cursive running along below the image I believe reads "Me Take You Likeness Mitsi," I assume articulating the action of the seated artist, engaged in drawing the old woman, presumably Mitsi, standing before him. A curious model she is, and what is with this giant hand she is holding out toward him, dramatically contrasting with the second little arm and hand at her side? She seems only to have