Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed ace of clubs and the ball rolls around

and the ball rolls around beautifully

Box measures 7 1/16" l x 2 5/16" d x 2" t

8" l x 6 3/4" w x 6 1/2" t

I'd guess cut from an early 19th century manuscript

7 1/8” tall and cut out of a ¼” thick piece of lightweight wood

Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed ace of clubs and the ball rolls aroundThe back of this painting is signed and a signature is scratched into the paint on the front right corner too, but I can't clearly read either. What first drew me to the painting is that wonderful passage of colorful strips at center, which I take for a bolster or perhaps a blanket running along the back of a platform sofa or day bed. But then it's all the details that make it really sweet the vessels lined up on the shelf above those stripes, the one