Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird not visible when closed

not visible when closed

One small loss to the edge at the end of the slide

capturing Venus in all of her grace

with the leather sewn to either edge

all I can really make out is the name Nancy

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird not visible when closedI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass