Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing advertising sheet music and the construction amazing

and the construction amazing

I purchased a studio pottery bowl similar in feeling to this one at the estate sale of a professor of architecture who had an incredible collection of modernist furniture

10 3/4" l x 1 7/8" across at widest

perhaps with the 2 inch round for crabapples

Largest cat is 1 3/8" long and the smaller cats are 3/4" long

Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing advertising sheet music and the construction amazingI pretty much never come across such a wonderful, early frame as this, and as I don't currently have something quite worthy of it in hand, I'm offering it up to be used for the precisely perfect thing which I'd say would be a Pennsylvania fraktur watercolor! I know from the seller it came from Berks County, PA, and based on a fair bit of comparison with early grain painted early PA frames out there, I believe it dates to the 1830s 40s. Beautifully