Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird Perfect matte gray paint

Perfect matte gray paint

not visible when closed

it feels more refined and also more substantial in person

pretty terrific I think

so my attraction to this is as an object--though of course it could be reanimated with new mechanics and set to work keeping time again

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird Perfect matte gray paintI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass