Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle a prolific and perpetually curious

a prolific and perpetually curious

There is some wear and cracking to the paint (more visible here in magnified views than with the naked eye) and some rust on the base

has lost part of its side and is stained along the lower edge of the lid

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

I am not certain of the wood --it may be cherry

Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle a prolific and perpetually curiousI bought a bunch of these together, my favorites of which I am listing individually, then I'll list another handful together, your choice, at a common price. A little digging reveals that "Fireside Studios" the maker of these "practice boards was a division of Fireside Industries, Adrian, Michigan, which sold and promoted all manner of decorative projects targeted to women at home. With these practice boards, one was to complete decorative painting