Swarming Gulls Over Moody Sea Old Oil Painting on Wood Panel handmade old puppet This vase is signed on

This vase is signed on the bottom with what might say "Hiller"

It would be great year round on the counter

I especially love how there is lots of empty space around them

One tiny split in the wood on one side at the tip of the handle

one really feels as if all three of these animals are seeing into one's soul and vice verse

Swarming Gulls Over Moody Sea Old Oil Painting on Wood Panel handmade old puppet This vase is signed onAnother Maine find, and it seems likely that's where it originated, but it is unsigned and I don't know for sure. Late 19th or 20th century I would guess, and done on a thick wood panel, which has bowed just a little over the years, no matter, just adding a little to its nice sense of object hood. I really love how both intense and graceful the birds appear, with their fine black outlines setting them off against the seascape as if in their own world