Folky Antique Crewelwork Perched Peacock with Birds and Ivy history painting and opens to a cardboard

and opens to a cardboard pocket with this same great zig zag rainbow inside

and the black painted base galvanized aluminum

for myself

and a boy in sailor suit at near left

and nature

Folky Antique Crewelwork Perched Peacock with Birds and Ivy history painting and opens to a cardboardAfter finding and quickly selling a wonderful early 19th century ink and watercolor folk art drawing of a peacock a week or so ago, it felt like a bit of a sign when I came across this embroidered one this week in Maine. As with that drawing, this one is rendered not in spectacular blues and purples but rather in a variety of shades of golds and browns, which make it feel quite majestic but in a subtler sort of way (and, like that drawing, it is much