Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem antique English pottery He will balance on his

He will balance on his own in a few different positions and is easily hung on the wall via the hole in his belly

A very sweet example of a daily diary like this and I just love the look of all those not quite straight lines separating each day of pages filled with handwritten text

so it is white paint rather than bare wood showing through in a few spots on those

75ʺ and in excellent vintage condition

Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem antique English pottery He will balance on hisI am a bit obsessed with this one. It is a fine, c. mid 19th century watercolor of a rose, which was very precisely cutout and pasted down onto this piece of card (by it's original maker I believe). But in that cutting process, I presume, the paper stem of the watercolor rose tore, and so they pasted it down above. And so, the presence of that broken stem, which casts just a bit of a shadow onto the page, tells us not just that the rose itself was cut