Pink House, Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Painting on Stone Slate meangerie 6 5/8" t x 2

6 5/8" t x 2 1/8" in diameter

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I’ve had a few fancy darning eggs make from a variety of stacked woods like this fine treen box--a spice box I'd guess

Pink House, Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Painting on Stone Slate meangerie 6 5/8" t x 2I imagine he slate on which this pink house and winter landscape was painted was salvaged from an antique school slate the frame of which fell apart. Whatever the case, I like it as much as any slate painting I've seen, cozy feeling and also with a real brightness (I'd say radiance, really) to this pink house against white snowy ground and blue sky. I especially love that little line of black crosses for the fence in the distance to the right of the