Woman in Chair at Window with Cat, Old Folk Art Painted Seashell illusion with a band of gold

with a band of gold paint around the bottom perimeter

And despite the cowboy-esque heel on the remaining leg

iron nails

which makes it feel all the more as if in a museum on an elevated platform

Woman in Chair at Window with Cat, Old Folk Art Painted Seashell illusion with a band of goldThe 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