Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape vintage animal with this elongated body on

with this elongated body on very short legs

Essex crystals are also known as 'reverse intaglios

F Bragg on the back

perfectly complemented by the abundance of deep plum fruits surrounding them--small plums I think (the right sort of greens) looking as  they've just been plucked

Box—into which they fit quite snugly

Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape vintage animal with this elongated body onA nicely painterly view of meandering stream and tall trees and distant hills here, but really it is all about these dogs! I could look at those soulful faces all day, and then again tomorrow; what a marvelously expressive pair, super folky but quite regal at once. I purchased this one from a dealer in Tennessee, and it looks like it is signed at lower right, but the ground is so dark it is difficult to make out. Earlyish 20th century I would guess,