Lovely Late 19th C Floral Watercolor Friendship Picture lady liberty 25"w x 3"d

25"w x 3"d

This is a terrific set of four Jugtown Pottery earthenware mugs and saucers in Jugtown's iconic orange glaze

Barrel boxes: both 3" tall

A bit of research leads me to believe that most if not all were made from a kit of Strombecker Steam Locomotives dating to the 1920s or 30s

and like a drawing in space--very sweet and certainly one of a kind

Lovely Late 19th C Floral Watercolor Friendship Picture lady liberty 25"w x 3"dI find myself looking a lot at antique floral botanical watercolors these days, as who doesn't need little doses of loveliness wherever we can find them? I really love the delicacy of this one, combining rose and rosebuds, pansies, and forget me nots which, together with the text below it, in Dutch I believe, make for quite a sweet token of fondness, sent from one friend to another. (The text may be an excerpt from a poem, but I've found it a bit of a