Antique Pennsylvania Folk Art Painted Panel with Hex Stars tabletop furntiture The wear to its dial

The wear to its dial attests to its having placed thousands of calls

Signed on the backside left corner

as the couple bundled up in pink in blue riding in this sleigh appear to be

No cracking of the paint on the flip side

Antique Pennsylvania Folk Art Painted Panel with Hex Stars tabletop furntiture The wear to its dialJust beautiful, with these super graphic yellow and black hex stars just totally doing it for me. Lots has been written about the Pennsylvania Dutch use of these complex geometric, heavenly inspired stars on the sides of barns and far beyond, and I do think they capture both a magical sort of wonder and a sense of universal order. I presume this was once a panel door on a piece of furniture, or perhaps the slide lid on a very long box. 19 3 4" x 10 1