Chance Animal Silhouettes on Card in Old Green Painted Frame black folk art 8 7/8" tall x 3

8 7/8" tall x 3 5/8" wide x 3 1/4" deep

with a nice mellow patina to the old gold paint

but it really has a marvelous object hood as a book

It looks to me like a snake curled into a spiral

Chance Animal Silhouettes on Card in Old Green Painted Frame black folk art 8 7/8" tall x 3A chance delight! I discovered this while opening up an antique gold gessoed frame in order to reuse it, and here was this, used as backing paper for a photo, sandwiched between a few other layers. Surely a product of toning, perhaps it once backed a pair of paper cutout animals, which left their silhouettes behind. Looks like a cat and horse to me, though perhaps a dog and an especially graceful cow! Whatever the case, the happiest of accidents