- This folk art painted
tray has as subject matter of three Frontiersmen.
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- One is carrying a
long rifle with belt pouch wearing a hat with feathers and early
garb, carrying game (rabbit) to the cooking fire.
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- One is wearing a
coonskin hat tending the fire, and the third is wearing an animal
fur (bear skin) for warmth.
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- Painted on the border
of the tray are crescent moons, a bull, a goat, a crab, a scorpion,
and star fish.
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- There is some paint
loss just to the right of the camp fire and it does have some
minor scrapes and other areas of paint loss.
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- There is no shine
to the paint and shows all the proper age that you like to see
in early paint.
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- This tray is just
a fabulous piece of early American Folk Art.
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- Measures: 23 ¼"x
16 ¼"
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- (additional photo
below)
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