Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird pretty terrific I think

pretty terrific I think

Perfect matte gray paint

) For me the all over craquelure makes this lovely young woman feel extra moody and the image all the more an object-- hovering in between the worlds of past and present

all I can really make out is the name Nancy

Illinois company were thoughtful and smart

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird pretty terrific I thinkI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass