Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento found objects Just a great little studio

Just a great little studio pottery vase

dated based on materials used (exclusively bear grass and cedar bark

but I think makes for quite an elegant

with this antique hand-forged strapped hammer is just my sort

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento found objects Just a great little studioFound 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