19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Urn of Flowers, Star receipt holder including the number of Saturdays

including the number of Saturdays

which became popular here in the last quarter of the 19th century and requires 16 chips and two dice to play (so there are a few spares here

was too beautiful to leave behind

alternating in direction

a wonderfully unusual

19th C. Naive Double-Sided Drawing: Urn of Flowers, Star receipt holder including the number of SaturdaysOne very last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker, 1870s or so I believe, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I like both sides on this one, but especially the loose confidence and great cheerfulness of this urn of flowers, which shows bleed through from a painted star on the other side, but it's so charming, who cares? 7 3 4" x 5 1 4". A