Blue Bird! Charming 19th Century Cutout Ink Drawing in Terrific Primitive Period Frame Chinese decor There is also some missing

There is also some missing chinking between the lowest two beams on the front facing side

and the petrified wood base (the absolute perfect base) definitely points to shorebird

With what I take for a cormorant—often portrayed as a foreteller of evil and doom—perched at upper left

There is not much out there about Blouch except a few sales of work at auction (Garth's

though perhaps a little pin cushion

Blue Bird! Charming 19th Century Cutout Ink Drawing in Terrific Primitive Period Frame Chinese decor There is also some missingPure joy. The marvelous, densely pen and blue ink decorated bird here is a cutout drawing, mid 19th c. I believe, purchased from a favorite Pennsylvania based dealer, and the wonderful c. mid 19th century black stained painted primitive frame with hand cut glass is one I found in New Hampshire and had waiting for the perfect thing, which I think the bird is! I mounted the cutout drawing to a piece of cream colored archival mat via one piece of