Lush Antique Naive Watercolor of Peach with Blue Leaves side opening and perhaps a frog below)

and perhaps a frog below)

and porcupine quills popping out everywhere--at an antique shop in Newburyport

With a frame size of 8" x 5 3/4"

)  Beautifully crafted and super sculptural

with a rounded end and a great dry patina

Lush Antique Naive Watercolor of Peach with Blue Leaves side opening and perhaps a frog below)The color on this is as lush as it gets, and to my eye it's really a gorgeous thing, very much a peach, but veering toward pure abstraction; naive and very sophisticated at the same time. 2nd half 19th c, on ruled paper with an embossed "Congress" mark at top corner, this I believe would have been done a school aged child, and the manner makes me think likely Pennsylvania. 9 3 4" x 7 5 8"". I found this watercolor cleanly split in two, and used