Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase and a sweetgrass rim on

and a sweetgrass rim on both the lip and on the underside

which shows some age

"Greenduck Metal Stamping Co"

which is attached by brass screws at center

he or she packed a lot into this bucolic scene

Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase and a sweetgrass rim onI'm quite taken with this small painting, which I can't stop looking at, and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size, though its scale is exactly right. I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue, which winds through and around the rest of the forms, literally tying them together. I'd guess the painting titled "The Story" portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with red tree at