Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball with hand-cut glass windows

with hand-cut glass windows

with drawstring for closing it tight

rather a copy of that print must have been laid facing it

16 1/2” x 13” x 9 3/4” t

From curls to cuffs to silhouettes

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball with hand-cut glass windowsFound 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