SOLD Great Old Varnished Cow Painting on Wood Panel antique gift book just make it better

just make it better

I didn't know quite what this was when I found it

and when you screw it off

I had to dig around a lot to find another of these Bennington Potters spoon rests

SOLD Great Old Varnished Cow Painting on Wood Panel antique gift book just make it betterI found this one at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend and was sold in one second flat lots of life to this cow, and also a certain effortlessness to the rendering, and that white triangle at the center of its forehead lands just right to hold it all together. With a perfect wispiness to the end of its tail and painterly dark green grass all around its nicely hoofed feet. With a thin layer of stain varnish over top, and lots of pencil writing