Woman in Chair at Window with Cat, Old Folk Art Painted Seashell antiuque mexican folk art painting with good age to it

with good age to it for sure

) both framed in great arches of carved stone that suggest both the hood of a parka and a sort of spiritual aura

and the carving was painted in red

but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life

Woman in Chair at Window with Cat, Old Folk Art Painted Seashell antiuque mexican folk art painting with good age to itThe second of two painted clam shells today, found separately, but certainly together suggesting that a collection of folk art painted shells would be a good thing to build! With little cat sitting dead center at the bottom with its back to us, this feels like the cat's world view to me! Some paint loss at right, which looks to have been a fireplace, with gold andiron at bottom left, but no great loss I think as this really feels all about this woman