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Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame bedouin resisting most until I cameFinding this one made me realize how rare it is to come across an early folk art tinsel painting of a bird I've since found a few examples out there, notably in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, but certainly there are hundreds of urns of flowers and fruit for every bird on branch! And what a bird, neck and breast and tail feathers a colorful, scalloped patchwork of shimmery foils showing through the reverse painted glass. And those red