Luminous 1899 E.C. Clark Oil on Chamfered Wood Panel Seascape sliding top to the wonderfully specific baskets

to the wonderfully specific baskets full of fish and other things including what I'd guess are lemongrass stalks

an interior that was once lined with fabric that has been torn out

I had another 19th century snuff box with very similar inlay that I believed was made French Napoleonic prisoner of war

including from above so as not to miss the long snake slithering across the middle of the pen

Luminous 1899 E.C. Clark Oil on Chamfered Wood Panel Seascape sliding top to the wonderfully specific basketsI love a seascape, and an oil painting on wood panel, and even better a a serene one with luminous golden and pink sky. Really a lovely one to live with a think, imparting both a sense of calm and of the miraculous! Signed E. C. Clark '99 at lower left corner which makes me especially happy as it thus feels a bit of a metaphor, too, for the sunsetting of one century and the dawning of the next! 11 5 8" x 9 1 8 and in very good condition, with a bit of