Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird With what appears to be

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

I really really love the matter of factness of this duck

Finland and the Kola Peninsula

this makes me want to build an alter and light candles in front of it for sure

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 With what appears to beA 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