SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard world war 2 the slatted compartments

the slatted compartments

Never too many creatures for the managerie

with its black eyes and beak

or at least observed these beauties on the sea

Found with a blue fabric tie around the neck but I like it better without

SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard world war 2 the slatted compartmentsI spotted this board from a distance hanging on the wall at a shop I frequent regularly in inland Maine the other day and made a beeline for it such a beautiful combination of colors in very old paint; to my eye formal perfection. It does not appear that it was originally symmetrical i. e. I don't think there was ever a second "well" at "top", but it did lose the fourth side of the perimeter framing at the edge of the well that exists. My eye doesn't