IRISH DRAFTS BOARD
Folk Art from a Dundalk Bay pub, County Louth.
c 1900
£245
Dimensions
32cm x 32 cm (12.5" x 12.5") x 1.5cm (0.5")
Description
Privy to jokes, tall tales, arguments and secrets for over 100 years, it's hard to calculate how many games of drafts and chess this board has played out, pints of porter and shorts of whiskey seen drained, or loves won and lost, and lives lived. From a coastal pub overlooking Dundalk Bay, Co Louth, a hand painted icon of folk art and tavern life is an evocative and striking wall hanging. c 1900. Mesmeric like a Bridget Riley painting but with real substance, character and presence !
Stock No. 2001
