Folk Painting on Canvas of Man with Cows and Dog in Landscape colorful tins with the hand-painted pipe rendered

with the hand-painted pipe rendered in relief

Best of all is the design of original box

but I’ve since found that it bears a strong resemblance to ancient Chinese archers and warriors on horses

with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops against a checkerboard splint background

It is in excellent condition and measures 8 1/2" across at handles

Folk Painting on Canvas of Man with Cows and Dog in Landscape colorful tins with the hand-painted pipe renderedThis charming little painting is not dated but it is signed, twice, by L. P. Mott once very small in the bottom left corner of the painting, and then again, in big stylized letters, on the back of the canvas, suggesting that he or she was quite proud of it, and justifiably so I think! With a smartly organized composition, he or she packed a lot into this bucolic scene, wonderfully animated by a little black hatted man with three grazing and resting