The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame antique keyhole cover department store window designer

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Plates measure 7 3/4" in diameter x 7/8" tall

with just a hint of purple

seemingly in spite of efforts cover it in pink

or wrap a ribbon around the handle and hang it from the wall

The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame antique keyhole cover department store window designerA gem of a naive 19th century watercolor in perfectly suited period frame, perhaps original to it. Not one thing more or less than exactly right I think, with a wonderful painterliness to the body of the very cat like cat animating it with lots of life, and just a few strokes of china blue turning the bowl, too, into something special. Really quite an elegant feeling little painting as well as a charmingly naive one, likely done by a school child. I