Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird Finland and the Kola Peninsula

Finland and the Kola Peninsula

With what appears to be a disk number carved in the underside along with a sticker

I'd guess the deck dates to the 1940s or so

A nice big chunk of white marble charmingly carved with fat flowers arching in every direction

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird Finland and the Kola PeninsulaA strange one! There seems to be a long history of rooster paintings, cock fight paintings included, though I have not been able to put a finger on the precise origins of the genre. This one oil on unstretched canvas, framed under glass I found in Maine, and believe dates to the late 19th early 20th c., with the frame perhaps original to it. And it certainly seems allegorical to me, though I'm not sure I understand all of its implications! The pair of