Fine Antique Impressionist Oil Painting in 35.3" x 30.5" Frame, Appealing Barnyard with Chickens French buttons 2-sided panels ready to finish

2-sided panels ready to finish back as a clean useful tea cozy

and yet they're fun and very collectable in their own right

950 silver

My sense of it is it was set at one time atop a marvelous 18th century snuff box

Fine Antique Impressionist Oil Painting in 35.3" x 30.5" Frame, Appealing Barnyard with Chickens French buttons 2-sided panels ready to finishArtist signed oil painting on stretched canvas, c. 1880 1900 estimate, the artist is "Malosik", continental artist we have not researched, but presents here as a talented impressionist. The brush strokes are loose and thick, and coalesce to the definitely feel of a large group of chickens and a rooster picking through the stray inside an old barn. Fabulous palette for subject, and while it's hard to get a good image with my photo lighting, shown under