Man in Carriage, Horse with Hidden Head, Fantastic Tree and Fantasy Architecture, Nancy Linton's c. 1880s Ink Drawing brown glazed vase that also look like flames

that also look like flames

with decorative brass plate around the keyhole and simple brass swinging lock cover is my favorite I've seen

Holding together but a little loose where back joins to sides

the latter creating the appearance of eyes

and all the better as applied to representing an eight point star flanked with eight angels adamantly gesturing (as if performing semaphore

Man in Carriage, Horse with Hidden Head, Fantastic Tree and Fantasy Architecture, Nancy Linton's c. 1880s Ink Drawing brown glazed vase that also look like flamesSuch a delight! I know from the New England dealer I purchased this from that the Nancy Linton who signed it (quite proudly!) was Nancy Isabel Linton, born 1868 in Charlotte, New Brunswick, in and around where she lived her whole life. (d. 1935). I would guess she drew this during her school years, early mid 1880s, and love everything about it our Nancy was not afraid of bold gestures, and I imagine her as a young woman with a mind very much her own!