Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove impressionistic landscape and great ears

and great ears

and then how perfect to apply to a jar of cold cream

One small dent along bottom edge

Glass measures approx 12 1/2" x 9 1/8" (visible area as framed is 10 1/16" x 8 1/8"

6 3/4" x 4 3/8" x 7/8" and in good condition

Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove impressionistic landscape and great earsYou know I'm a sucker for a naive floral watercolor, and this I believe is quite an early one, 1st half 19th c.(and I think closer to 1800 than 1850), with a wonderful looseness and sense of whimsy to it indeed, it looks almost as if the basket is about to tip over with the weight of all those flowers! Fabulous woven basket, fabulous flurry of green, with roses and bluebells and pansies and strawberries and who knows what all spilling out. I