Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box features an elegant relief design

features an elegant relief design in shades of silver

a minor dark smudge to the paper to the right of that

5 7/8" tall and wide and in excellent condition

Funny how a series of wavy painted lines and dabs in just the right red transform a plaster slab into what could only be taken for bacon--and there's just something about bacon

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Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box features an elegant relief designFinding this one made me realize how rare it is to come across an early folk art tinsel painting of a bird I've since found a few examples out there, notably in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, but certainly there are hundreds of urns of flowers and fruit for every bird on branch! And what a bird, neck and breast and tail feathers a colorful, scalloped patchwork of shimmery foils showing through the reverse painted glass. And those red