Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame handmade brush What a curiosity

What a curiosity

But most of all I love the dangling legs of the baby

) I'd just hang it on the wall from the handy hook at top--perhaps on the outside of a door as a means of saying Do Not Enter

so now it just needs to sit somewhere

I believe the piece dates to the 1960s-70s

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame handmade brush What a curiosityI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass