SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard extruded clay Ink text on heart is

Ink text on heart is faint but can be read

Signed and dated 1982

and tall yellow boots

) I believe it is a carte-de-visite albumen photo

SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard extruded clay Ink text on heart isI spotted this board from a distance hanging on the wall at a shop I frequent regularly in inland Maine the other day and made a beeline for it such a beautiful combination of colors in very old paint; to my eye formal perfection. It does not appear that it was originally symmetrical i. e. I don't think there was ever a second "well" at "top", but it did lose the fourth side of the perimeter framing at the edge of the well that exists. My eye doesn't