Wonderful Antique Folk Art Reverse Glass Painting of Flowers saltillo textile and all the better with

and all the better with luscious red paint spelling out OPEN in  perfectly imperfect hand-painted bold lettering over top of it

I am not certain the age on these but they are definitely old

And quite a wonderful job he did

Plus an introduction that tells the history of La Florida—located on a “glorious corner of Havana” previously occupied by “The Silver Pine” and now transformed into “a refuge of Art and Poetry”

Densely stuffed with rags

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Reverse Glass Painting of Flowers saltillo textile and all the better withI LOVE this naive reverse glass painting of flowers, which verges into the realm of total abstraction, and also, for me at least, evokes a cluster of seaweeds and corals as much as it does a floral arrangement. I know that reverse glass painting was taught to young women in the first half of the 19th century and then became widely popular as a decorative art from about 1850 to 1890; I am not certain the date on this one, but 19th century for sure. And