Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor antique seashell engraving Very good condition with some

Very good condition with some staining around the lip particularly

This guy though has strings still attached to head

which from what I understand was created to mimic the gold-embossed calf-skin wall coverings from Europe

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

roughly period frame--grain painted with silver interior edge

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor antique seashell engraving Very good condition with someI 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