Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture cricket cage Very happily

Very happily

I like that this vase also has a sort of farmhouse feel

I believe from long ago

to whom another of them was inscribed as a gift in 1872

It's got some age to it for sure but is in very good condition with no losses at all that I can see and all the petals and berries very soundly adhered

Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture cricket cage Very happilyThis charmer! Like a naive schoolgirl drawing rendered in silk embroidery, except for watercolor used for the girls face and pale blue sky behind her. To my eye and sensibilities just wonderful, this blushing girl in her fabulous striped dress (with little blue shoe peeking out) bent forward and looking quite contemplative, her hat in her lap and flowering sprig in the other, and with just a partial view of an urn in front of her. That, along with