Save the Food Gouache on Board Art Student Painting decorative dish 4" long x 2 3/8"

4" long x 2 3/8" tall x 1" wide and in great vintage condition

which opens just to reveal

This charming vintage hand-painted Chinese Foochow lacquer bowl features a gold interior with three goldfish and a black exterior with a finely painted dramatic gold dragon with red and green details

I am pretty certain it is copper

it strikes me as a wonderfully poetic representation of fall

Save the Food Gouache on Board Art Student Painting decorative dish 4" long x 2 3/8"This painting came from a portfolio of student work by a Rachel S. Roberts, c. 1918 I'd guess a class assignment from an advertising design class. Though done as a mock graphic for the U. S. Food Administration founded in 1917 to administer food reserves for the U. S. army and allies during World War I certainly the message remains relevant today, and I really love her rendering of those fish, especially! 9" x 12" gouache on board. Some stains and a