Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball 7 7/8" x 6 1/2"

7 7/8" x 6 1/2"

with drawstring for closing it tight

All spring loaded

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

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 7 7/8" x 6 1/2"Found 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