Oil on Glass Pansy Painting with Tiny Scissors! shopkeepers cup and contains two interior trays

and contains two interior trays with incised banded designs on sides and bottoms

9 1/2" long x 5 1/4" wide x 1/2" thick

but what I most love is the surface

etc--at first for dances but then specifically to sell

Oil on Glass Pansy Painting with Tiny Scissors! shopkeepers cup and contains two interior traysIt's the little pair of scissors painted in the bottom right corner about to snip a leaf of of one stem that really sold me on this painting, which, somewhat surprisingly, was painted on the face of a plate of glass, making me think that whoever made it was perhaps just using whatever they had on hand. But scissors aside, I think it's a lovely little painting, delicately done, and with a subtle, somewhat muted palette that makes these pansies feel