Mountain Dogs on Snowy Cliff with Cross, Antique Oil on Canvas Painting (some damage) painting of Rockwell Sabeliner It's rare that I find

It's rare that I find an old painter's palette with a satisfying build up of paint on it these days that doesn't cost a fortune--and more and more I seem to come across palettes that look to have been deliberately painted for decorative purposes (yikes

lined with silky purple-brown fabric

Some hairline surface cracking to the lacquer and one small chip at the center of the lid

Found at a flea market in Adamstown

it came with its original "League of New Hampshire Craftmen" tag inside

Mountain Dogs on Snowy Cliff with Cross, Antique Oil on Canvas Painting (some damage) painting of Rockwell Sabeliner It's rare that I findIt's the forlorn looking dog in the distance here (looking a bit like a little black pig!) that really sold me on this painting what an empathetic creature! With the cross perched out there on the peak, I presume that these two Burmese mountain dogs I believe, with small barrels around their necks have been out on a rescue and come to the end of the trail. And so I take this painting as portraying a moment of mourning. In the wake of the apparent loss