Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor antique seashell engraving and this drawing

and this drawing

roughly period frame--grain painted with silver interior edge

(There is a wooden tray as well that the boxes sit on

Small but wonderfully detailed--all that intensively carved fur and those tiny little feet and crosshatched tail

though I don't know for complete certain

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor antique seashell engraving and this drawingI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5