Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball this past week I went

this past week I went back to the same dealer who had put out a few more and I snapped them right up

16 1/2” x 13” x 9 3/4” t

these pretty little rounds of paper cut from early playing cards with wooden disks behind many of them

From curls to cuffs to silhouettes

it seems quite an apt companion to the Marie Antoinette watercolor I'm listing next

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball this past week I wentFound on the southern coast of Maine, surely not far from where this large clam shell was painted, late 19th early 20th century. I might pass by a pansy painting on board, but give me some flowers painted on a shell, or a rock, or a conk, and I'll scoop it every time. The world is a canvas for the resourceful! And paintings on objects feel much more like momentos. 6" x 3 3 4" x 1" d. A little paint loss to the left pansy, as documented, and a few