A yellow painted board with a well-worn hole at one end, widening towards the other end. The board is decorated on both sides. Side one: large white peonies with green stems, has on the same side but oriented to the reverse edge, a running, snorting brown horse on a square piece of lawn. The other side has peonies, lilies of the valley, and other white flowers with green stems. One edge of the board is painted yellow, the other black.
boards (flat objects)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
flowers (plants)
floral patterns
figure- and animal-derived motifs
horse (animal)
scenes (depictions)
Painted
Flower
Horse
Scenic
Landscape
Wood
Board
In black paint/pen, in the upper right corner are the initials (bordered on two sides by a white line): C.H.L .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 3/10 x 25 3/4 x 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.354
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