Yellow House on River, Old Oil on Board Folk Art Painting wrapped bark box with white slip trail lettering

with white slip trail lettering against nearly black grainy clay looking like the  icing decorating someone's chocolate birthday cake (or mayonnaise squeezed onto pumpernickel

There is also a sticker on the back dating the piece to what looks like 1967 and attributing it to an Elijah

One sees these old verre eglomisé--or reverse painted glass--panels around from time to time

There are a couple of small marks on the lid that make me believe there was once another handle on the top

blue on cream cream stock

Yellow House on River, Old Oil on Board Folk Art Painting wrapped bark box with white slip trail letteringSeems to me this is just the sort of house V. L. Davis (owner of the frog box I just listed) might have lived in, setting out from the house along the path that runs to the foreground and, one imagines, far beyond. Not a masterpiece but nicely atmospheric and rather transportive I think and I really like how precisely, crisply painted that yellow house is, with both river and path painted as if leading straight to its front door! 14 3 4" x 11 1 4",