Pink House, Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Painting on Stone Slate three drawer tabletop chest the really gives a sense

the really gives a sense of the owl's feathers as a form of camouflage

whose full name I know from a pile of old school penmanship exercises

but overall very good condition

The painterly white and inky dark blue glazing around the body of the vase has been incised to reveal the black slip underneath

snake-like circular and square coils interrupting the horizontal ones

Pink House, Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Painting on Stone Slate three drawer tabletop chest the really gives a senseI imagine he slate on which this pink house and winter landscape was painted was salvaged from an antique school slate the frame of which fell apart. Whatever the case, I like it as much as any slate painting I've seen, cozy feeling and also with a real brightness (I'd say radiance, really) to this pink house against white snowy ground and blue sky. I especially love that little line of black crosses for the fence in the distance to the right of the