The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame club checkers some very similar in construction

some very similar in construction to the this one

and even better if serves a function

and the way the paint has hung on just along them

8" t x 4 3/4" w x 1/2" thick

The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame club checkers some very similar in constructionA gem of a naive 19th century watercolor in perfectly suited period frame, perhaps original to it. Not one thing more or less than exactly right I think, with a wonderful painterliness to the body of the very cat like cat animating it with lots of life, and just a few strokes of china blue turning the bowl, too, into something special. Really quite an elegant feeling little painting as well as a charmingly naive one, likely done by a school child. I