British Hand-painted Lake Landscape Postcard with Gold Painted Frame, c. 1910 antique carved horse brittle and torn but still

brittle and torn but still holding together

Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries ("Suzani" comes from the Persian "Suzan"

with a nice patina especially visible on the creamy white paint

I imagine this spectacular white glazed

This pumpkin-shaped (or sometimes described as melon-shaped) rich green and bright orange lacquer box with incised vine

British Hand-painted Lake Landscape Postcard with Gold Painted Frame, c. 1910 antique carved horse brittle and torn but stillSome old hand painted postcards I love for their curiosity of their imagery and captions, and others, like this one, for representing an easy way to collect lots of little landscape paintings! I especially love the gold painted curlicue border around this one, just right for a framing a postcard perfect view, with sailboat in the distance. Signed ORG at bottom right for O. R. Gerring, stamped again on the reverse side, certainly a relative of the Mr.