SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware and the moat-like platform it

and the moat-like platform it sits on

but the paint job on the mustard yellow cow with blue eye and cowbell is pretty hard to beat

(The Coushatta are a matrilineal society native to Southwest Louisiana recognized as a sovereign nation in 1973

with one area of surface wear/discoloration to the skin toward the bottom center

and the end of the handle has a hole for stringing a wire or ribbon through if one is inclined (as I would be) to hang this beauty on the wall

SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware and the moat-like platform itI only buy things I like and would be happy to keep, but this is one of those I'd be especially fine holding on to ; I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors, and this I believe is quite a phenomenal example. What an incredible density of tiny tiny pricked holes, making the hat and robe of this man feel quite like a cloud, and with what appear like angel wings (though perhaps a large pack) emerging from his back. The effect to my eye