Big Blooms in Basket-like Urn with Scroll Handles, Large Antique Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting collectible ceramics 2 5/8" diameter at center

2 5/8" diameter at center

WPA artists produced thousands of these models in the 1930s as educational visual aids for schools

And then that little pencil drawn pocket and not one but two bows on her bustle skirt

and one feels the desire to protect him from the world

And just wonderful patterns and details

Big Blooms in Basket-like Urn with Scroll Handles, Large Antique Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting collectible ceramics 2 5/8" diameter at centerI found this one at an antique show in New Hampshire and immediately thought that I'd like to see it hanging above an actual urn of blooming flowers, and even better one sitting atop a marble pedestal something about it feels like a post modern sort of mash up to me, which I like it. And also, I really like the painting of that basket like urn and its very feathery scroll handles! It is a folk art reverse glass (eglomise) tinsel painting, late 19th