Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! reaching hand To eye rather a beautiful

To eye rather a beautiful object too

and the image of a family at the center of the top

with what appear to be handwritten numbers on the recessed wood tiles

Watercolor is mounted to backing paper (original to it

These sorts of refrigerator jugs/pitchers were designed with spatial economy in mind

Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! reaching hand To eye rather a beautifulI bought this one at Brimfield from a marvelous dealer whom I've bought a series of small wonders. Though a lover of ships in bottles, I myself had never seen a ship in a lightbulb before, which struck me as brilliantly resourceful and also enhancing of the sense of wonder these provoke in me at least. Of course, given the ingeniousness of folk creators, I have since turned up documentation of a few other examples, most dating to the 1940s or so, and