Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento found objects composed of sticks

composed of sticks

dated based on materials used (exclusively bear grass and cedar bark

Just a great little studio pottery vase

and 2" wide and in very good condition

with this antique hand-forged strapped hammer is just my sort

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento found objects composed of sticksFound on the southern coast of Maine, surely not far from where this large clam shell was painted, late 19th early 20th century. I might pass by a pansy painting on board, but give me some flowers painted on a shell, or a rock, or a conk, and I'll scoop it every time. The world is a canvas for the resourceful! And paintings on objects feel much more like momentos. 6" x 3 3 4" x 1" d. A little paint loss to the left pansy, as documented, and a few