Peaches and Cream Old Oil on Board Painting Signed J.E. Field pin The sheath is marked Tromso

The sheath is marked Tromso on one side (and 1910 on the other)

but believe this is most likely by a Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) carver  from the SW Coast of Vancouver Island

small enough to put in your pocket and take anywhere

and exposed clay on the interior and bottom

which I love for its shape and the contrast between the near-black ebony with the near-white horsehair

Peaches and Cream Old Oil on Board Painting Signed J.E. Field pin The sheath is marked TromsoThis old painting fills me with a sense of well being as I imagine those picked peaches just picked and still warm from the sun, and the pitcher filled with fresh cream, maybe from the cow of its painter! Not a masterpiece but pretty charming, and I especially love the peach pit sitting there as testament to the peaches' deliciousness! Oil on board, framed in just the right old cream painted wooden frame, where it has probably lived since it was made.