Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame cutout wooden bird There is a little rippling

There is a little rippling to the paper

8 1/2" x 6 3/8"

I don't mind if I never sell any of these old school books with doodles and drawings inside

and the pins still in it all over

others are more cerebral

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame cutout wooden bird There is a little ripplingI 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