Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento 1880s photo making me happy

making me happy

there is something about the interaction between my iPhone camera and this vase that makes the surface decoration (hand-painted using a resist technique for the crescent shapes I believe) appear a bit blurry

Such a beauty of a box

evocative and finely done piece

and very often "failure"

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento 1880s photo making me happyFound 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