Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing man with top hat I usually believe in putting

I usually believe in putting functional pottery to use

and the years 1849 and 1850 appear

and  would be equally great just treated as tabletop sculptures

Larger brush is 10 1/2" long

Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing man with top hat I usually believe in puttingI pretty much never come across such a wonderful, early frame as this, and as I don't currently have something quite worthy of it in hand, I'm offering it up to be used for the precisely perfect thing which I'd say would be a Pennsylvania fraktur watercolor! I know from the seller it came from Berks County, PA, and based on a fair bit of comparison with early grain painted early PA frames out there, I believe it dates to the 1830s 40s. Beautifully