Fantastically Colorful 19th C. American Tall Ship Watercolor in Period Frame dutch oven It appears to have been

It appears to have been hand-painted and additionally features very fine incising on each of the small "petals" that surround the repeating circular forms with black dots

or from the ceiling

these little carved heads a case in point--but really how to ignore these faces

" Based on a few other painted examples I have seen

There seems to be just a tiny bit of warping to the wood of the lid such that it sits just a tiny bit higher on one side - very minor

Fantastically Colorful 19th C. American Tall Ship Watercolor in Period Frame dutch oven It appears to have beenWhen I spotted this this old watercolor at Brimfield this past week, earlier than later 19th c. I believe, on wove, and I think likely once held in a school ledger I completely swooned and immediately jumped on it; its everything I love and more! Not just a fabulous naive early watercolor of a sailing ship, and waving not one but two American flags, it's the most marvelously colorful and exuberant rendering of one Ive certainly ever seen, veering