SOLD Woman and Bird, Very Finely Done Small 19th C. Oil on Tin Boudoir Painting family portraits both as tokens of Taoism

both as tokens of Taoism (shooing away evils) and with the practical function of brushing away the flies

3 7/8" tall

I assume just as a hat

carved of pine I think

SOLD Woman and Bird, Very Finely Done Small 19th C. Oil on Tin Boudoir Painting family portraits both as tokens of TaoismLove at first sight with this one, though I did then take out a magnifier to examine most every inch of it, as it was so precisely done (oil on tin) I almost didn't believe it was a painting. I've been thinking some about paintings of women and birds of late (there is a fantastic Morris Hirshfield painting recently shown at the American Folk Art Museum of a woman lying on a sofa facing a bird and appearing as if about to feed it from her mouth) and