Beautiful Form: Antique Cast Iron Dome with Old Paint Traces art instruction choosing it for the combination

choosing it for the combination of its sentiment

000 of these tin birds were pinned up around the state (I really love envisioning that giant flock of these hung up everywhere

who seems 3-dimensional against the flat gray painted ground (making me think of a fotocultura)

and the smaller one are printed in red with a grapes and fruit and vines pattern

The plate has one small crack near the center

Beautiful Form: Antique Cast Iron Dome with Old Paint Traces art instruction choosing it for the combinationI presume this antique cast iron half sphere was made to hang straight down via its four perimeter holes. With traces of orange gold paint still holding on, it feels to me as if it might have lived in a holy space, but I really have no idea. Whatever the case, it appears quite old, and I just find the domed form, with scalloped pattern around the edge and fourteen ribs running to the top, just a satisfying thing. 4 7 16" d x 3" t. Very good antique