The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame club checkers dating to 1831

dating to 1831

Makes me wonder about that Zeph Magill

8 3/8" x 6 3/4"

Early 20th century and reflecting a pretty strong Asian influence I think

Penmanship includes a number of poems and phrases

The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame club checkers dating to 1831A 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