Landing of the Pilgrims Dec. 22, 1620, Drawn Dec. 1849 Folk Art Watercolor in Period Grain Painted Frame drum stool In a very nice lemon

In a very nice lemon gold frame where it has clearly lived for a long time if not forever

I've seen these old carved and painted antique Swedish spoons referred to as "love spoons" or "love tokens

Stamped (incised) with what looks like AC on the underside

I like the connection between the figure mining for fish hidden below the surface of the ice and the box itself as a place where treasures are concealed and kept safe

making it feel itself rather like a veil

Landing of the Pilgrims Dec. 22, 1620, Drawn Dec. 1849 Folk Art Watercolor in Period Grain Painted Frame drum stool In a very nice lemonDetail photos give a much better sense of the charms of this one, which I found at the end of a long day of antiquing in PA when things get blurry (information overload) and it felt like one thing I didn't have to think twice about, waiting there just for me to find it. With all the white space here conveying a sense of the vastness of unknown terrain in what feels like a very true sort of way, the two sole trees further amplifying a sense of this