Bellflowers, Lovely 1872 Floral Watercolor Signed Marian Marcelin meansuring cup just a couple of years

just a couple of years before the completion of that Art Deco landmark (construction began in 1928

A wonderful old folk art wall box

with the rope carved in the round as it snakes across the top of the anchor

5 1/8" x 4 framed

Disks incised with dial lines  and numbers and letters

Bellflowers, Lovely 1872 Floral Watercolor Signed Marian Marcelin meansuring cup just a couple of yearsI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on another watercolor by this same Marian Marcelin that I listed last week, of an iris she "raised herself," these often seem to me to embody several points of pride at once. And I think this is a lovely example, bellflowers I believe. Signed on reverse and dated 1872. 8 3 8" x 5 3 4" and in excellent antique