Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird A nice big chunk of

A nice big chunk of white marble charmingly carved with fat flowers arching in every direction

9 1/4" long x 1 7/8" across at ferrule (where bristles attach to handle

and believe it dates from the 1960's

Finland and the Kola Peninsula

and David Simpson

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird A nice big chunk ofA strange one! There seems to be a long history of rooster paintings, cock fight paintings included, though I have not been able to put a finger on the precise origins of the genre. This one oil on unstretched canvas, framed under glass I found in Maine, and believe dates to the late 19th early 20th c., with the frame perhaps original to it. And it certainly seems allegorical to me, though I'm not sure I understand all of its implications! The pair of