Woman in Chair at Window with Cat, Old Folk Art Painted Seashell illusion with a band of gold

with a band of gold paint around the bottom perimeter

There are a couple of tiny scratches in the quartz and perhaps some very aging to the silver of the beak

Jerome in his old age

The seller I purchased this from found it with with a note that it was what "grandma" used to keep her string

iron nails

Woman in Chair at Window with Cat, Old Folk Art Painted Seashell illusion with a band of goldThe second of two painted clam shells today, found separately, but certainly together suggesting that a collection of folk art painted shells would be a good thing to build! With little cat sitting dead center at the bottom with its back to us, this feels like the cat's world view to me! Some paint loss at right, which looks to have been a fireplace, with gold andiron at bottom left, but no great loss I think as this really feels all about this woman