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Lot 763
Two Antique American Folk Art Tinsel Paintings.
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Reverse painting and foil on glass, circa 1860-1870, unsigned, including a large example featuring flowers against a sage green ground and the second a smaller work with pink and red flowers against a dark ground, each in likely original frame.

DOA 17 x 12.25 in. and DOA 33.5 x 26 in.

The American Folk Art Museum in New York mounted “Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America," September 12, 2012 - January 13, 2013.

Some nicking to frames.