Wonderful Antique Painted Wood Fragment with Birds in a Row Bert Potter music It's really a lovely thing

It's really a lovely thing

Oil on canvas nailed to wood frame

With gun in one hand

The painting has not been touched

blues and greens

Wonderful Antique Painted Wood Fragment with Birds in a Row Bert Potter music It's really a lovely thingI'm not entirely sure from what this painted wooden fragment was salvaged perhaps a piece of moulding, or furniture in a child's room? but I'm sure glad someone saved it, as it's one of my favorite new old things, and quite old indeed I do believe. Two great shades of old blue paint, and then these wonderful hand painted marching red birds in great dark red. I find this about as satisfying as a fragment of an ancient frieze, which I actually think it