SOLD Favorite Conk Painting Ever: New England Salt Box with Painterly Sky on Gold Painted Base teuila fortune telling cards prior to merging in 1897

prior to merging in 1897 to become Blake and Knowles and moving to East Cambridge

this fabulous bright red-orange and black hand-painted ceramic flower frog could perfectly well be used to hold a few flowers in place

and the handle on the lid of the box appears a bit tilted

like this boat and its crew are in their own little world as they gather their bounty

SOLD Favorite Conk Painting Ever: New England Salt Box with Painterly Sky on Gold Painted Base teuila fortune telling cards prior to merging in 1897I really never have seen such a charmer of a painting on a tree conk (fungus) before, and this a quintessentially New England one, too, depicting a terrific little salt box house, the likes of which one sees all around these parts. With incising outlining the house and road alongside it, a nice thick application of paint on the dark gray house and deep green lawn, and a super painterly sky striated with blue and pink and white and cream and yellow.