just amazed by the fineness of their incised decoration
but it also might have been the all purpose go-to for all sorts off mixing and stirring
and is nice and tall for branches or big Asiatic lilies
with the first members of the family moving from New England to San Francisco during the gold rush in 1850
in large part as a result of finding wonderful objects like this brass duck-shaped clip
Charming Antique Folk Art Watercolor of Bird on Branch Signed Esa, Framed Tales from the Igloo just amazed by the finenessI'm always on the lookout for 19th century Fraktur style folk art watercolors exactly like this one, which I am assuming was done by a young girl named Esa, though there are also the initials HL in pencil at lower left. The bird, flowers and branch were outlined in pencil, then painted in soft blue, green, ochre and pink. Serene but very cheerful and just lovely. Done on lined paper, with an embossed mark at lower right. It appears to be fairly newly